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EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

By | October 20, 2009, 6:53pm PDT

Summary: Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company’s Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees’ 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, Inc. I had the pleasure of speaking to Tony Maro, [...]

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Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company’s Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees’ 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure.

Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, Inc.

I had the pleasure of speaking to Tony Maro, who is CIO and an owning partner in EvriChart, a medical records management company based out of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.



EvriChart had some unique requirements which included replacing a Windows-based line-of-business application for document management that would not scale with the continuing growth of their business. By migrating to a Linux/Open Source-based Web application, it paved the way for full desktop Linux adoption at his company. I asked Tony to summarize his experience so that I could share it with you in the hopes that you might gain some valuable insight from the process he had to go through.

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  • EvriChart: A Linux Success Story
    LOL!!! Sinking to a new low to try to justify linux. This is just sad. I give them less than a year before they migrate away from it.
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    Loverock Davidson
    20th Oct 2009
  • have any reasoning why it's bad? nt
    nt
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    privatejarhead
    20th Oct 2009
  • Yes (NT)
    ^^
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    Loverock Davidson
    21st Oct 2009
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  • And now private
    you see the in depth of insight and wisdom that makes LD such a credible authority in the IT industry.

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    Viva la crank dodo
    21st Oct 2009
  • LD...
    I like Linux better than Windows, but I do use both. LD is a hater. He's probably not smart enough to use Linux, or does not have patience to troubleshoot it. Linux is a good system, and it is getting better with time.

    Loverock must work for Bill, and I bet that out of all of his employees kissing Bill's behind, he is the one that french kisses it, and he does it with glee..... LOL
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    cdiazh
    27th Oct 2009
  • Look at Ernie Ball
    If I'm not mistaken... Ernie Ball, a guitar string manufacturer has been running Linux since 2003. As far as I know they still are.
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    flhtc
    21st Oct 2009
  • Ernie Ball
    Ernie Ball was ticked off because he got caught stealing Microsoft licenses, they called him on it and he had a hissy fit. Very bad example on your part.
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    Loverock Davidson
    21st Oct 2009
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  • Or did he catch them
    In their overzealous audit?

    If it was a success, it's not exactly a bad example.
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    IT_User
    21st Oct 2009
  • Anything
    against MS is a bad example as MS is never a villain.

    If it was another vendors client pushed to Windows due to not understanding the license of the previous vendor and as a result violated it, it would become a good example of a poor victimized company benefiting from the MS benevolence.

    Surprisingly this is one of LD's more in depth comments even if biased with the MS does no evil attitude.
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    Viva la crank dodo
    21st Oct 2009
  • Licensing
    I find it hard to simplify it to that degree, but I guess digestion is in the eye's of the reader. It's more like the BSA was on the hunt, and Ball was the target.

    http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html

    I really don't care why they left. They did, and have been successful ever since.
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    flhtc
    21st Oct 2009
  • EB strings are still the best strings for electrics
    I won't go to anything else and I can't think of a guitar great who isn't using them.

    The quality and availability of the product has never changed.

    I'm not sure if it is a Linux success story since I don't know enough about their processes but its hard to argue that company isn't successful.
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    maskman01
    21st Oct 2009
  • Strings
    They're the only ones I use. Been that way since the late '80s
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    flhtc
    21st Oct 2009
  • Martin's on the acoutics
    I tried other strings for the acoustics but always end up back using the Martins.

    I hear the rest of the world has gone to these red, green, yellow, etc strings. That ain't for me. happy
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    maskman01
    21st Oct 2009
  • "EvriChart: A Linux Success Story"
    "LOL!!! Sinking to a new low to try to justify linux. This is just sad. I give them less than a year before they migrate away from it."




    In a YEAR is when you going to see Microsoft MARKETSHARE going down !!
    Mark my words:Google ChromeOS,Moblin,Android,Ubuntu...they will be all over.
    (smartphones,Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs),Desktops)
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    TheCableGuyNY
    21st Oct 2009
  • You are out of touch
    That simply will not happen. But in a year most businesses will have completed their migration away from linux.
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    Loverock Davidson
    21st Oct 2009
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