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Hospital Software Vendor McKesson Uses Linux to Heal IT Budgets

By Todd R. Weiss

“In 2004, health care software vendor McKesson Provider
Technologies began focusing on ways to cut IT costs for customers,
including hospitals and medical offices.

“The cure for IT cost bloat: moving many of McKesson’s medical
software applications to Linux, which could then be used on less
expensive commodity hardware instead of expensive
mainframes…”


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