But how difficult will it be to port the app to linux. Sure Microsoft SQL is now linux supported but what about the other links?
WINE runs some Windows programs without tweaks, never tried AC. Sounds like an excellent project for our next Linux intern.
For interfaces, integration, eRX were Java in the past, increasingly web services are the connections now. Linux dominates the web services world, as well as the interaction protocols (e.g JSON, REST, AJAX)
For example, Advanced-MD, long a Windows ONLY shop, have released their JSON API.