This article discusses the struggle between the chief executive and the IT manager in an Irish hospital to stay open source instead of spending ‘e2 million’ on proprietary software: ‘…Mr Kenny claimed that the decision had the potential to commit the hospital to an investment of around e2 million and that nothing resembling a clear business case to justify the outlay had been produced.
Mr Kenny acknowledged that Beaumont Hospital was the only organisation in the health service that had adopted an �Open Source� strategy to date.
�Yet this has in no way disadvantaged us in fully participating in the interchange of data with other agencies,� he explained…’ Mr Kenny, the IT manager, appears to be making a courageous effort.