anamar-ippf wrote on Thursday, September 27, 2007:
Are those the same thing? We´re looking for documentation about openEMR and we´ve found an OPenEMR.net site… .so, I´m confuse. Is the same thing?
Thanks again Rod!
Ana María from IPPF
sunsetsystems wrote on Thursday, September 27, 2007:
This question deserves a longer answer, but in short no, they are not the same thing.
The guys at openemr.net are not currently talking to us or working with us, so I’m speculating a bit here. But as near as I can figure, their project is actually two separate projects:
(1) A fork of OpenEMR that is obsolete (based on 2.8.1 which they have re-labeled 3.0) and will soon die; and
(2) A brand new EHR system (which they have labeled 4.0) written in Java that is far from complete and has no real tie to OpenEMR.
I understand they purchased the openemr.net domain from Pennfirm, who used to maintain OpenEMR. It appears they are deliberately confusing the community by using the OpenEMR name with their own, incompatible, release numbering system, for the purpose of promoting their own project which is not built on the long-respected OpenEMR PHP code base.
We suspect they are also trying to get away from GPL licensing so that they can sell proprietary add-ons. The OpenEMR project on SourceForge, by contrast, is dedicated to remaining completely free and community-driven.