[AccessD] Dental Software

Hi Shamil:

It does sound like an excellent package and it appears they are doing
everything right. The company is encouraging other developers to contribute
to their code.

I was particularly interested in the comments of the following pages:

http://www.opendental.com/manual/clinuxmac.html

This does not totally rule out running on Mac and Linux. On Linux the
application could either be recompiled under Mono or, not mentioned but it
could also, in theory, run under Wine. Of course on a Mac it would require a
virtual Windows OS.

The idea of it being available on tablets is very interesting...a number of
restaurants are now using tablets; the waiter(st) takes the order at the
table, which is displayed to the cook, in the kitchen and the cook signals,
to the waiter when the order is ready for delivery...all very efficient. How
would that concept translate in a dental office?

I am getting a server up and running in the next few days. Replaced the
motherboard (4 core pure Intel board), only 3 GB RAM (currently transferring
a 32bit Server2003 OS which has the network's Active-Directory) and it has a
new 3TB HD, along with the original drives. The box is also my IIS server.
After that I can do some playing...

So we shall see...as the product is internet based maybe it is a good place
for a test bed?

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov
Shamil
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 1:38 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dental Software

 Hi Jim --

Thank you for your comments.
That Open Dental software they say is currently used by 4000 dental offices
- so not all should be that bad in "standardization" of dental offices'
everyday workflows/operations.
I'm thinking about business opportunity here - this software is evolving as
an open source project

http://www.opendental.com/manual/versions.html

and if this software is really working so good as announced then its
adaptation for a certain dental office workflow/operations shouldn't be that
much work - I mean it should be affordable for dental offices.

Going with Mac or Linux front-end version - no need now I suppose - as this
software is written using C# and MySQL and it will run well on modern MS
Windows PCs/Windows RT Prof tablets without any additional Windows server
software license costs - with backend MySQL db running on Linux server. And
this software has also a web interface, which, they say, is working well on
iPhone and Android smart-phones and I guess on iPad tablets also.

And they have ambitious goals ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Dental ):

<<<
The project wants "this software to become the world standard dental
software. We want to make it easy to access and share data. We are tired of
the restrictive policies of the current dental software companies. We want
the user to always have total control, not the software company. And most of
all, we want software that just works well".
There are about 4,000 offices using OD, and an estimated 10,000,000 patient
records.
Dr. Jordan Sparks has done most of the initial programming. They have a team
of additional programmers employed these days. >>>

Are that goals looking too ambitious?


-- Shamil