Naked Dentrix: 2 Years Running
This is a followup post to "Going Naked with Dentrix" that I wrote in January of 2008.
So, here it is January of 2010. What's up? How's it going?
We're still running Dentrix 11. We're still naked, and things have been great.
Cost of hardware upgrades: $1200
Cost of software support: $0
Value from being Naked: priceless
Actual money saved: $2,200
So, we had a couple of machines that outright died. Thus, the $1200 for hardware. And as I declared in my Opinionated Hardware Buying Guide we got two Apple Mac Mini's that we run Windows XP on using Boot Camp. They are awesome, BTW.
I'll skip the specs, but they are plenty powerful to run any version of any practice management system. They use very little electricity (a scant 14W of power when idle). They are practically silent, and are easy to mount just about anywhwere.
Anyway, I thought I would take a look and see what's happened in DentrixLand since we've been gone:
- eBackup - Got released. Awesome.
- G3 came and went.
- Now we have G4 and 6...no, 7 Service Packs -- I think Dentrix has really upped their development cycle. Which is nice...
- Knowledge Base -- I haven't used it. Did it get released?
- I asked for a development blog, but I don't think that happened.
- I asked for a Feature Voting System too. They did it! It's like a walk down memory lane looking at those requests. So many familiar ones. I voted! Did you?
- I asked for free downloads of the software for registered users. I don't know...did that happen? If I'm going to pay $25 to have a disc mailed to me, it better have a darn good blu-ray movie on it.
Sadly, not everything is kittens and roses in NakedLand. There are some issues cropping up and we may soon find ourselves standing at two roads diverging in the woods. Will we be Robert Frost? or will be that other guy. Oh, wait a minute, there isn't another guy.
Stay tuned.
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