It is certainly possible to have different architectures based on different technologies. However, there are limitations to this. Building an application that uses a hierarchical database is easier in MUMPS than in Java. Building a web-based interface is easier in php, etc etc.

Your points about architecture are both valid and interesting, but they do not justify your actions, which is to attempt to draw developers to your "design" away from the Tolven/OpenMRS "designs". Both of those "designs" are mature, live systems. Your "design" is an experiment. If you were saying "hey I have this alpha system that has an interesting design, come help me with it" AND you mentioned that both Tolven and OpenMRS both probably justify at least 1.0 status, then I would have no problem with what you are doing.

This is where the disconnect seems to happen. I am trying to enhance the communities ability to move forward, and I am grudgingly willing to accept second-rate designs to make that happen. You care about your personal preferences regarding design so much that you are willing to cripple the communities ability to move forward.

So I will repeat what I told you over the phone regarding this issue. I hereby concede all design points to you. For the sake of this argument I bow down (virtually speaking) to your infinitely superior software architecture skills. From that position... you are still wrong to do what you are doing. There MUST be a way for you to get what you want regarding design, without starting yet-another-alpha-EHR, which will starve for resources, even as it steals resources from already solid projects.

-FT

It is dreadful to die of thirst in the sea. Do you have to salt your truth so much that it can no longer even ‑ quench thirst? -Nietzsche

PatientOS may never be what you don't want it to become, but Caulton is certainly not stealing. For you to take the position that he is stealing, well, you are wrong to do what you are doing. If you have such evidence, present it. Otherwise, give it up.

Consider, am I "stealing resources" if...

I buy a single copy of a CD and copy some or all of it to my computer and my iPod?

I take my son to play football at the park, and we don't join the other guys who are already there, with whom we play sometimes, and who want extra players this particular day?

I start a new church even though there are five established churches of very similar faiths within a mile radius that I could be attending instead?

I have work done on my lighthouse using contractors from across town, knowing full well that my 4 immediate neighbors, with whom I am friends, consist of a professional plumber, painter, mason, and carpenter who could really use the work?

I open a new gas station at an intersection that already has gas stations on two other corners?

I drive the city streets instead of the tollway?

I spend a hundred thousand dollars on cancer treatment for my wife, rather than donating it to the American Cancer Society?

I give thousands of dollars to Salvation Army each year, and won't give a single hour of my time to the shelter that is in my immediate neighborhood?

I spend money running for President of the U.S. with absolutely no chance of winning, when I could have donated the money to the candidate I would most prefer to win?

I get my own hotel room while on the road with other employees, in violation of the company policy to bunk up in pairs to save on costs?

I decline being a backup singer in Faith Hill's band, only to end up singing a hit song on American Idol, and within the next year beat Faith Hill out for every single award category she had been winning the last four years running?

I give money to my brother-in-law who is mentally ill as a result of too much drug use in the past, but won't give a cent, not even toward treatment, to my own brother who is still on drugs?

I buy discounted, round-trip airline tickets to Hawaii for two on a honeymoon special, with full intentions of flying out for business with my (non-spouse) business partner?

I join the Peace Corp and serve in Somalia, consciously opting not to join the much more organized local Guard unit to assist during natural disasters here in the States or the military to go fight in Iraq?

I do something with eager confidence, simply because I can and I choose to?