I won’t make it to the conference, but just FYI (our own case studies are with the managers to eventually publish this from our side):

(– Fry-IT uses Ubuntu as host and guest OS of internal infrastructure on Linux-VServer and OpenVZ, running about 150 virtual machines at this point,)

– we did a HA virtualized cluster for NHS Connecting for Health, e.g. http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk and dozen other websites are hosted on it, Ubuntu guest+host OS

– Ubuntu as host and guest OS in OpenVZ cluster setup at MOD Defence Academy , running about 50 VMs, e.g. http://www.da.mod.uk hosted on this.

I wrote my bits for the case studies for the latter two and these currently go through our internal review process before going to the respective clients, which may well take a month or two. Do you think this might be interesting to the wider Ubuntu community? If this is good enough to get on your case studies page, who in Canonical should I talk to? Steve George maybe?

Thanks for the best distro

Good luck and hopefully I’ll get there and see some enterprise success stories!

PS: I know Ubuntu got a DB2 certification and it’s a good step forward but a long way to go.
PPS: I work in a corporate environment and already pushed some linux boxes to production environment but unfortunately it’s not Ubuntu since some of our software it’s not supported on ubuntu.

Healthcare Supporting Software must be one of the areas most needing that “Ubuntu touch”.

Every piece of Healthcare supporting software has a given associated morbidity and mortality, meaning that any of us may one day be involuntarily carried to a hospital and there be an involuntary victim of bad software.

Picking an open source software package to support Healthcare Information Systems (to use at hospitals, or small clinics, or even private practices) and make it pervasive would be a giant leap forward in Healthcare IT safety both in rich and poor countries.

Poor and rich countries could afford to have proper Clinical IT support software if it seated in a country’s central web server ready to be used by authorized personnel at each of that country’s healthcare facilities, by means of a standard web browser using a standard (private or public) IP connection. The so called interoperability issues and the nonsensical associated “interoperability industry” would be put out of the way by this innovative disruption.

Just to illustrate it in a simple way: make Bazaar manage medical records, serve them using something like PostgreSQL+PHP+Javascript+Apache, and let the final users see a secure and ergonomically designed interface at his current web browser. Use the “wisdom of crowds” to find what are the most needed specs and what is the most reliable way to interface the human being at each end.

Best Regards,
J. Antas