The most important reasons were portability, reliability and data security. The realized system is not dependent of vendor specific UNIX dialects or hardware features. The latter allows to run the original code and X Window based user interface. It offers the same functionality as the Unix client, inclusive teleconferences. A Web Interface is the most hardware and operating system independent solution.
Users can access it with any web browser.
Images can be distributed in-house and light weighted clients running on PCs can be used to view or process the images in teleconferences. Clients for MS Windows are available as well as web based interfaces which can be accessed from any hardware or operating system with a web browser. A storage hierarchy can be configured to reduce the traffic on the archive and to optimize image transfers on the network. The user has not to know where the data are actually stored. The filmless radiology can be realized with this technology.