[ale] Re: [ale-unemployed] Where we stand 2/8/02

[Adrin]

The government is forcing the upgrade, I
think.  This may also be the reason why
some offices are dropping Medicare.  I
am willing to bet that the Terminals are
actually serial connections.

Adrin


-----Original Message-----
From: Dow Hurst
[mailto:dhurst at kennesaw.edu]
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 11:42
PM
To: jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Re: [ale-unemployed]
Where we stand 2/8/02

I haven't been following this thread,
but I do know that a doctor in Marietta
has been faced with integrating billing
into an electronic format.  This is to
facilitate Medicare billing, I think.
Anyway, the companies offering him this
service charge anywhere from $4000-$9000
for upgrading his current hardware and
software to do the job.  The current
hardware is a 486 running SCO Unix.  The
current software is a ncurses type
interface via ethernetted terminals
throughout the office.  Old but
reliable.  If his current hardware could
run software that would do the job and
you could offer say a $500-$2000 deal, I
am sure he would jump at it.  I think
Medicare won't deal with paper billing
from doctor's offices anymore so this is
a forced market.  Just a thought,
Dow


>>> "James P. Kinney III"
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> 02/09/02
19:11 PM >>>
Nail struck squarely on the head, Irv.

New business start-ups need a ready to
run box with stuff loaded that
they don't have to think about. If a
business is new to computing, I
suspect it would be an easier sell for
Linux based set-ups. And it has
to be low cost for the new business to
be able to afford it.

On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 14:55, Irv Mullins
wrote:
> On Friday 08 February 2002 10:33 pm,
James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > For the benefit of those who were
unable to attend, this is a rundown of
> > the (on topic :) discussions:
> >
> > Everyone pretty much agreed that a
collective effort to get consulting
> > work for all of use would be a more
effective use of our individual,
> > limited resources.
> >
> > We discussed some target markets for
focusing an advertising campaign
> > on. New start-up small to mid-size
business and medical offices were the
> > most common targets.
>
> This is a good and sensible approach.
However, these are also the
> same businesses that can't afford
staff programmers, so appropriate
packaged
> software (or reasonably priced custom
software) must be available. I think
> that will be the biggest stumbling
block to overcome. You'll need to have
> references to people who are
successfully using software X, Y and Z
in
> similar situations, if you expect to
wean them from Windows.
>
> I search the web regularly for Linux
business software, but most of what
> I've found seems to fall somewhere
between pre-beta and vaporware, or is
> priced out of the small business
market. Hopefully, I am totally wrong
> about this - if so, someone correct
me.
>
> Regards,
> Irv
>
>
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