[Info-vax] FMS and Datatrieve

[seasoned_geek]

On May 20, 1:32 pm, Johnny Billquist <b... at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2011-05-20 09.39, JF Mezei wrote:
>
> > FMS (and ALLIN1) are in in maintenance mode.
>
> > FMS was to be EOLed at the VAX-Alpha transition, but the announcement
> > that ALLIN1 was to be ported to Alpha forced Digital to port to FMS too,
> > but it has been in maintenance mode since. There was one new release and
> > a couple of patches I think since the early 1990s.
>
> Wasn't FMS supposed to be replaced by a new product, that did what FMS
> do, and more? I can't remember the name of it...
>
>         Johnny



FMS has been supposedly replaced many times by many products SMG,
DECForms, etc., but FMS is simple to use combined with a large
installed base.  In other words, it ain't goin' nowhere.