Fred Trotter

I just had a great meeting with Dr. Winn over at eMds this week. Dr. Winn and I have been in discussions for months regarding how e-MDs might be able to leverage Free and Open Source software. I cannot discuss much until the proverbial ducks are in the proverbial rows, however, I can tell you that Dr. Winn is planning some very very big things with regards to FOSS releases. Thats all I can say for now… but you can assume that I was there for a very good reason.

Along with meeting the whos-who of e-MDs, I took a tour of the e-MDs facility. This place was huge! They had really cool training rooms and other resources to host clients. All in all, they are obviously a first-class software company. (admittedly proprietary, but then no one is perfect.)

The trip concluded with a visit to the best corporate toy I have ever seen. e-MDs has a working moving replica of Robby the Robot, from Forbidden Planet. The replica moves and is controlled via an MP3-player. They have a sound track of funny sayings about e-MDs recorded in a robotic voice that they have the Robot “say” as it moves around, blinks and chirps.