[Info-vax] Cerner might be realizing HP-UX is industry joke

[David J Dachtera]

DaveG wrote:
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> On Dec 3, 8:40 am, Sue <susan_skonet... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 26, 7:25 pm, seasoned_geek <rol... at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
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> > > This just showed up.
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> > >http://www.americasjobexchange.com/seeker/jobsearch/quick?action=JobS...
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> > > Cerner appears to be actively looking for OpenVMS skills.  Even after
> > > they were told that OpenVMS was not strategic by HP.  My guess would
> > > be their installed base decided to jump vendors rather than operating
> > > systems...well...some of them were smart enough...enough of them that
> > > Cerner is once again listing OpenVMS skills as a requirement in their
> > > job postings.
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> > > I provided the link here because I know some of you worked with Cerner
> > > products on OpenVMS before Cerner was told that OpenVMS was not
> > > strategic for HP...hmmm...I wonder if Gartner was paid to say that as
> > > its own "industry analysis"?  Seems to be pretty much how they
> > > generate all of their "industry analysis", whatever a vendor pays them
> > > to say.
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> > Cerner has some wonderful VMS people there and I would highly recomend
> > them is anyone is looking for a job.  Please do remember that they had
> > VMS for years so would have a number of customers and a number of
> > projects running VMS.  When the decision was made not to port to
> > Integrity by the powers that be, I am sure they thought it was for the
> > best.  But as we all know VMS customers usually prefer to stay on VMS
> > for which I am very happy about.
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> While this will probably remain a mystery, I wonder what the _real_
> story was behind the Cerner decision not to stick with VMS.
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> Maybe Indiana Jones will dig it up a few centuries from now.
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> Dave...

This was fairly "straight from the horse's mouth" for both Cerner and
MiSys (now Sunquest, once again) (senior executives at both companies): 

About four years ago, HP went on the road pushing I64. This we all know.

For an OS, however, HP pushed UX and barely - if at all - mentioned VMS.

The vendors interpreted this, rightly or wrongly, as "VMS is
end-of-life" (EOL, i.e. "dead").

Hence, the ISVs came forth to their user bases and announced their
"sunsetting" of support for VMS as a platform OS for new releases of
their products.

Their customer bases responded, in large measure, by choosing IBM and
AIX for their migrations, and the rest, as they say, is history.

D.J.D.