[Info-vax] Ken, where r u now? Was: Elephants...

[ken.fairfield at gmail.com]

On Mar 2, 2:07 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <8185f029-7940-45da-aca3-66f7935a9... at f1g2000prb.googlegroups.com>, ken.fairfi... at gmail.com writes:
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> >On Mar 1, 4:59=A0am, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> >> 1) Intel (they still use VMS in their fabs)
> >[...]
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> >Phillip Helbig mentioned the same thing in a separate thread
> >several weeks ago, and Michael Kraemer rightly questions
> >it in this thread.
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> >The truth is you won't find *any* VMS running Intel fabs
> >(as in process control) after this summer, when the last
> >of the 200mm fabs close.  The 300mm fabs either came
> >up on Windows + HPUX, or have converted.
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> >The "assembly/test" sites, and the offline analysis of
> >fab output, are likely (because I left about 2 years ago,
> >I can't say for sure) still on VMS, but it is just a matter
> >of time before those functions are moved off VMS as well.
> >There is no IA64 VMS running in Intel fabs, for example.
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> I thought you were still at Intel.  What are you doing now?

I'm still in the greater Portland, OR, area, still doing VMS. :-)
For now. :-(

For the last year and a half, I've been working for Legacy
Health System, a non-profit that operates 5 hospitals and
a larger number of clinics in the area.  It's a good
organization that I'm happy to be associated with.

We have an old AS4100 on VMS 7.1 running Cerner Classic
(mostly just toxicology now, and that due to be moved off to
Millennium by end of summer),  and Cerner Millennium on
GS1280's at VMS 7.3-2 (and planning to go to V8.3 late
summer or early fall).  Apparently, Millennium is the gold
standard for lab processing, which accounts for a major chunk
of our income...

Unlike David D., we won't be migrating our Millennium
to AIX, at least not *locally*.  However, there is the
VMS end-of-life issue for Millennium, and to keep the
lab on that application *may* mean remote-hosting
at a later date.

In any case, we are in the midst of a big project to
migrate the non-lab functions off of Millennium onto
a competing product called EPIC.  EPIC is platform
neutral, for the most part (Cache database), but the
powers that be chose AIX to host it.  So eventually,
that's what I'll be working on.

Professional confessional in a nutshell. :-)

    Cheers, Ken