[Info-vax] New RoadMap out for VMS

[Kenneth Fairfield]

On Monday, October 3, 2011 8:15:29 PM UTC-7, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> Kenneth Fairfield wrote:
> > On Sunday, October 2, 2011 6:04:26 PM UTC-7, Forster, Michael wrote:
> >> Certain healthcare entities, private public mixed, rely on VMS. 
> 
> 
> > At this point, VMS has no future in the healthcare
> > industry whatsoever.  Most big users are on AIX.
> > Smaller users are on other things
> 
> I don't know about the future, but as far as who's running VMS now, I
> know there are some health care folks that have home-grown software --
> no Cerner in sight.

Folks with home-grown software are going to be at an
increasing disadvantage as provisions of the Affordable
Healthcare Act kick in, particularly, Meaningful Use.

I cited Cerner because they started out on VMS, and have
been the big gorilla in this field.  They've completely
dropped support for VMS as of their 200x.19 release 
(sorry, I don't recall the "x" at the moment, which 
release came out in 2009...2010.02 is current).

I cited Epic because they play in the same field and have
caught up with Cerner, and judging from new customers, etc.,
will exceed Cerner quite soon.

*Small* applications in this arena are almost exclusively
on Wintel.

I honestly don't see any future at all in health care 
for VMS.  :-(  I don't even see "legacy" use continuing
for more than 203 years because of the aforementioned 
ACA.

    -Ken