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To add detail for those that don't understand, the big healthcare players barely have unix teams, and the small mom and pop groups literally have desktops sitting under the receptionist desk running the shittiest software imaginable.

The big health products are built on windows because they are built by outsourced software shops and target the majority of builds which are basically the equivalent of bob's hardware store still running windows 95 on their point of sale box.

The major players that took over this space for the big players had to migrate from this, so they still targeted "wintel" platforms because the vast majority of healthcare servers are windows.

Its basically the tech equivalent of everything evolved from the width of oxen for railway.



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