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Ulitzer's Business Wire reports:
The Spine -- a collection of national applications, services, and directories -- connects clinicians, patients and local service providers throughout England to essential national services, such as electronic prescriptions and patient health records.
Spine is used by more than 20,000 organizations that provide health care across England, including primary and secondary care sites, pharmacies, opticians and dentists. Riak, the open source distributed database, is key to providing the reliability and scalability for the platform to drive efficiency and improve patient care.
The NHS' move to revamp the Spine, in a major project led by England's Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), was driven by the need for a scalable, resilient and flexible system that would also result in cost-savings for the organization.
With these requirements in mind, the NHS selected Riak Enterprise, the commercial version of Basho's distributed open source, highly available NoSQL database, to support the transition and implementation of the new Spine. Basho and the HSCIC collaborated throughout to ensure the technical knowledge of both organizations was reflected in enhancements to Riak and the wider project itself.
El Reg's coverage notes that the old system used a (closed-source, proprietary) Oracle product and the new software is NoSQL running on an open-source stack. It also notes the decision was made in October 2013.
Robert Pogson's commentary is also interesting.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Friday September 12 2014, @09:10AM
Wow, here is your idiot sign since you don't even seem to understand basic capitalism. I'll try to explain it so even a FOSSie can understand,mmmkay? Company buys Windows for $25, Company GETS PAID BY TRIALWARE COMPANIES to the Tune of $100. What is $100 minus $25? The answer is $75 which is HOW MUCH THE PRICE IS LOWERED. So if YOU want to have it without Windows then YOU pay the $75 that the company is LOSING by not putting it on there...is that REALLY so hard to understand?
Oh and I understand your "reasoning" because you sir are a religious zealot. If the same deal was set up with Ubuntu you'd have NO problem with it because it was YOUR pet OS that was being featured, classic hypocrite, no different than the hardcore left or right who rail about abuses by "the other team" and ignore it when their man does it.
News flash if you want new PCs not to come with Windows then MAKE A BETTER PRODUCT but time and time again the ONLY THING you can offer is your "freedum" which frankly nobody but you gives a rat fuck about, since they aren't programmers and care more about having an OS that actually WORKS than in your precious codez. See the runaway success of the iStuff, which is so locked down it makes Windows look like BSD. Its a free market so its really simple, just make a better product. instead we see what happens when you try to compete on anything other than Stallman's definition of "freedumz", because even on systems designed for Linux [wikipedia.org] you get support so crap that Dell had to make their own fork [theinquirer.net] which allows MSFT to whip your ass with an ancient version of Windows [computerworld.com] because hey at least Windows doesn't deal with failing video servers and bootloader crapping as "common problems" [maximumpc.com], right?
Simply accept that the best product won and it wasn't yours, mmkay? When MSFT put out Vista, did Linux gain? Nope, what about Win 8? Nope again, in fact Linux usage has never been lower with the last OS numbers having Linux at a truly pathetic 0.97%...BTW that puts you below "other" which is commonly accepted to be really old Windows like Win2K and Win98, great job! If you think your OS has anything to offer other than "Stallman's freedom" feel free to put your money where your mouth is and take the Hairyfeet challenge, 8 years now and not a single Linux distro has passed what frankly should be considered the BARE MINIMUM that anything called an OS should be able to do! BTW the last Windows that couldn't pass the challenge was WindowsME. Step up and take the challenge!
Take ANY mainstream (not LTS, because even Ubuntu advises against mainstream users using LTS) OS from FIVE years ago, this simulates a 5 year typical lifecycle. This BTW is less than HALF a windows support cycle, so I'm cutting Linux a break. As for mainstream any of the top 5 on distrowatch or anything listed under "user friendly" that has existed 5 years will do, because this is a test of desktops and NOT servers, mmkay? Lets say you use Ubuntu, that would be Ubuntu 9.10 and can be downloaded from their archive. Install it on ANY PC, desktop or laptop (NOT VM as that isn't real hardware and comes with special drivers) that has a wireless card. Wireless is required because more and more mainstream users are ditching wires and nobody wants a laptop that doesn't have wireless, do they?
During this phase you are the system builder so CLI (which is usually required because Linux driver support is poor) IS ALLOWED. Once its installed you are no longer the system builder but THE USER, so like a windows user you are ONLY allowed to use the GUI. You then get to "enjoy the freedom" of using nothing but the GUI (because if you can't even update the thing without CLI you're no match for windows are you) of updating to current...with ubuntu that is SEVEN RELEASES, just FYI. You will film this and post it to youtube, you only have to upload the final install process of each release and a pic of the device manager showing working hardware including sound and WPA V2 wireless, but the complete video should be hosted on dropbox to prove you aren't faking it.
That's it, the most basic of functionality and NO distro has been able to pass! The closest was some FOSSie who claimed "I beat the challenge!" but then admitted he used SciLinux (failed the first part as its own website says its a research OS for labs NOT a consumer OS) and then when the proof was requested? he ended up with no sound and no wireless! Great OS, can't even update itself without trashing itself. But hey prove me wrong, step up and take the challenge! Otherwise you can just accept that even though anybody can pop on the net and buy a Linux PC NOBODY WANTS LINUX because at the end of the day you have developers that care more about politics than making a functional product. Your ranting about "freedumz" and "M$" reminds me of dodge in the 80s "Hey buy a Dodge and support Americans...it doesn't fucking run, breaks constantly, and sucks compared to the competitor but hey...you're supporting Americans!" Apple made a better mobile product and look what happened, they managed to beat "teh ebil M$" yet after 20 years your product can't even get 5%? even giving it away? Time to stop blaming the users and start looking at your own shitty product pal, nobody is making anybody buy Windows, just look at the win 8 sales figures.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Saturday September 13 2014, @05:15PM
Well since you have turned your "Ad Hominem Regum" sign, I will scythe through your noisy protest.
M$ was ruled a monopoly. One of features of a monopoly is that they can use their position to abuse the market, and prevention the emergence of a competitor.
For example, there have been many documented cases where M$ has forced manufacturers to not sell devices with Linux on. They are not the only abuser of power, but they have arguably had the most effect.
M$ gets more cash from Android through the "weak patent circus" for the really crap filesystem that DOS had.
Linux is just(!) the kernel. GNU/Linux is the system. Distributions are collections of software that can be maintained for communities that want them.
If FOSS has one problem it is TOO much choice.
But anyone who quotes "win 8 sales figures" is clearly ignoring the fact that you cannot buy it WITHOUT windoze.
I have no problems with M$ the business or the users. My problem is they have screwed it up for the rest of us with their anti-competitive tendencies, and really crap software. (As I argued before if I pay $1 and it fails, that is clearly worse than $0 and it fails. In both instances you can pay more to fix it. )
The market has voted and linux in the form of Android has won. If you read around you will see that Android is slowly being made available via the linux desktop (ChromeOS). The first distro to offer Android securely via the desktop will shift what is meant by "home computer".