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

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On 3 Mar, 07:16, "Bob Eager" <rd... at spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 00:25:00 UTC, ken.fairfi... at gmail.com wrote:
> > 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...
>
> Wow! Somebody still using Millennium!
>
> I wrote and sold the PDL compiler for VMS to the Millennium people many
> years ago. I remember that the Millennium VMS team said a compiler
> wasn't possible, but the UK team pointed to me and....!
>
> --
> Bob Eager

This really is the key to the whole thing in my view - users and
customers now buy the application, not the OS.  Application
availability kills the platform and the operating system.  Tru64 was a
better Unix but HP-UX had the applications.  OS/2 was better than
Windoze but Windoze had the applications.  If my company's software
was on OS/400 then that's what my customers would be buying.  At the
moment, it's on VMS though so that's what my company's customers buy.

Steve