Almost without warning two salesmen from a large American company showed up. The RSNA is the world event in the subject of radiology. Iris is an application for the archival and retrieval of radiological images. This first installation clearly showed the robustness of the product, of which Linux is great part, and that we could handle the problem correctly. But first let me explain the specifics of the problem.
Radiology is a specialty that is usually very expensive both in equipment and in film stock.
For this and other reasons it was desirable to eliminate film usage and substitute it for a computer screen. Furthermore, Iris allows one to centralize ALL the radiological events by patient. Each image has recorded in it the first and family name and patient code. Each province has a certain independence and the province that hired us for this first installation has seven regions. In these regions we are going to connect six hospitals though a WAN ATM of 100 and 10 Megabit, Linux has nothing to do with this network, it only works on it, but it allows us to stress the importance of its tasks.