NewsForge: Mercy Hospital Opens Arms to Open Source Enterprise Systems Management

“For almost 100 years a group of women called the Sisters of
Mercy have been instilling a spirit of excellence into Baltimore’s
biggest hospital, appropriately named Mercy. Right from the start,
the Sisters have made it their goal to push the medical institution
beyond the ordinary by creating teaching affiliations, feeding the
hungry, building state-of-the-art emergency services, and launching
a neighborhood health center for the inner-city poor. In today’s
world, all that excellence requires a solid technology
infrastructure–and one open source management package to manage a
variety of systems.

“Mercy’s data center houses more than 200 machines running
Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, and other, more obscure operating
systems. Mercy CIO Jim Stalder says about 160 of the servers are
Windows-based, but because the health care services industry is
‘fragmented,’ with many essential applications available only on
other OSes, he also has to maintain dozens of non-Windows
machines…”

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