I just had a great meeting with Dr. Winn over at eMds this week. Dr. Winn and I have been in discussions for months regarding how e-MDs might be able to leverage Free and Open Source software. I cannot discuss much until the proverbial ducks are in the proverbial rows, however, I can tell you that Dr. Winn is planning some very very big things with regards to FOSS releases. Thats all I can say for now… but you can assume that I was there for a very good reason.
Along with meeting the whos-who of e-MDs, I took a tour of the e-MDs facility. This place was huge! They had really cool training rooms and other resources to host clients. All in all, they are obviously a first-class software company. (admittedly proprietary, but then no one is perfect.)
The trip concluded with a visit to the best corporate toy I have ever seen. e-MDs has a working moving replica of Robby the Robot, from Forbidden Planet. The replica moves and is controlled via an MP3-player. They have a sound track of funny sayings about e-MDs recorded in a robotic voice that they have the Robot “say” as it moves around, blinks and chirps.
Great post. Let me know when you have something cool to announce. I’d like it for both my ZDNet blogs.
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