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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 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".