The short answer is yes. We see participation of existing software suppliers as an important milestone in our vision of delivering quality, open standards and choice to the market. We also see it as a positive for the software industry as they gain significant cost benefits (designing, development, testing) from the utilisation of core software components developed and tested by the open source community process. A major upside of their involvement will be their ongoing involvement in the development of the OpenVPMS kernel. As the OpenVPMS kernel will always be open source and licensed to ensure that any developments are contributed back to all subscribers, this will be a positive outcome for everyone. We will actively encourage other developers and business' to develop proprietary applications that utilise the OpenVPMS kernel. Our only stipulation will be that any Practice or business that utilises the openVPMS kernel pays their yearly subscription fee.