My SEM runs windows 98 (2nd ed) on a 233MHz PC, I have upgraded the EDX from NT to 2000. other equipment runs on 98 and can't be 'upgraded'.

In fact it is terribly sad, one of the drivers for replacing a $100K piece of scientific apparatus is that the $500 PC can't be upgraded to the current security protocols. :mad:

May I ask you a question about your GE implementation?
I'm reluctant to mention this on the Aunt Minnie PACS board, for fear of sparking yet another GE-bashing thread.

Have you ever rebuilt your Centricity workstations yourself, i.e. declined to use GE's workstation image? And, if so, have you been able to navigate through the kludge that is GE Centricity and make them actually work? Also, when not using GE's image, does GE support treat you as if you are on your own (as I suspect they might)?

Thanks,
--Flint

Centricity, Viewpoint, and images
 

Flint,

Not only have we done it, we use it on Citrix XenApp.

GE supports us, even on our own images.

We run our own images for Centricity, a customized Centricity Web (we SSL-enabled it and turned off integrated authentication so our docs can use it without having to log into the PCs under a Windows session), our own images for GE Viewpoint, and Intel NIC cards in our forthcoming Imagecast RIS servers (we told GE that we wanted Intel cards because Broadcom cards have way too many issues, and they agreed after we gave them the HP ticket # I opened up).

The only thing we don't customize are our GE Imagecast PACS servers and our hardware configs for them. Everything we do is by the book with GE on those, down to the switches.

Considering I had GE engineers on the phone debugging issues with Viewpoint on our image and our workstations (Dell Optiplex 760) with our team, I think that the same courtesy extends to Centricity. I got approval to SSL-enable Centricity Web from them.

I think they're a great company when they send out the good engineers, like every other vendor.

At this point, if GE reads this post, they know EXACTLY who I am :).