[Info-vax] Decomissioning VMS... a sad day!

[Bob Eager]

On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:24:13 -0800, Ken Fairfield wrote:

> On Feb 2, 2:38 pm, Bob Eager <rd... at spamcop.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:45:01 -0800, Ken Fairfield wrote:
>> > Cerner announced EOL of VMS some 2 yrs ago, IIRC. Current releases of
>> > the application (Millennium) run only on AIX, HP-UX and Linux.
>>
>> MILLENIUM! It is (was) still going????????
>>
>> I wrote the PDL compiler and run time system for that. The USA staff at
>> the time (Dun and Bradstreet) said a compiler wouldn't work, or give
>> performance gains. I proved them wrong. Nice installable shareable
>> runtime, tight code...I had fun doing that in my spare time and making
>> a nice bit of cash.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Likely a different Millennium.  Subject of the post is Cerner
> Millennium, a follow-on to Cerner Classic, both of which are Electronic
> Medical Record systems.
> 
> What was "your" Millennium?

Different one, then! Dun and Bradstreet (later Geac) had a large system, 
database driven. "Geac’s system known as Millennium keeps track of a host 
of business information such as account payables, taxes payable, accounts 
receivable, fixed assets, and others."

It ran on multiple system but I did the compiler for VMS and the other 
major system on which it was sold.
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