Why does every hospital have its own admissions system? Why the serious variance in quality? Why does each doctor's office have its own
There are days that it looks like the part of the country I live in is driven by a new democratic principle of "one building, one grant".
It's consolidation opportunity, baby!
The Collaborative Software Initiative looks to the pooled interests of "software consumers" to leverage quality and costs. The coopepetitors (my neologism, dammit...) gain the advantage of common code that's out of their strategic differentiation zone... like....
- would a school differentiate on the basis of its transcript generating system?
- how many patient history forms does a region need?
- what about the data manipulation underneath a sales-lead tracking system?
Ones' mileage may vary, but this new company, with focus upon open source software stacks (LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) looks to be getting to the headaches in the consuming business/government/educational communities. They've also secured alliances with IBM, HP, Intel, and Novell (for starters) and seem to be in the right market place to deliver great value.
Although humans look for patterns in data, (see the face in the clouds?) the Collaborative Software volk fit in with the other coolhunting I've been after:
- open source appliances such as the edgeBOX for all in one branch office solutions
- CUWiN's open source community networking using open source
- the compelling economics of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) and Open Source
- the already past but becomming more obvious effect of consumer gizmo volumes inverting the old early adopter TALC models.... but I need to wave hands on this topic at a future posting.
Wisdom of crowds.... boy howdy.
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