the non-technical managers understand that the FDA only approved the J6 version of the app. If you want to use J7, you have to resubmit to the approval process.
The law is there for a reason.
SOME apps it won't matter... like maybe some billing or hospital transportation apps or something... but certainly anything diagnostic in nature cannot be run in a manner in which it was not approved.
Which is why biomedical engineering and IT are different departments. IT doesn't touch anything that directly touches a patient.
One of the applications I'm talking about is a physician portal meant specifically to be used over the public internet.
Ouch. That just screams 'this company doesn't understand security at all'.
This might finally be the end of IE6.
Source?
Right now it's "just" Java 6 which isn't installed on every machine out there (but still on a huge part of all Java capable machines). Next year it will be Windows XP which still has between 40% and 80% usage.
Me personally, I'm really interested how this is going to turn out. Will we see unofficial patches? Will we see anti virus vendors step up and provide semi-official patches? Will vendors have to cave and continue issuing patches? Will the malware issue just be ignored? What kind of damage does need to happen before something changes?