[Info-vax] New RoadMap out for VMS

[seasoned_geek]

On Oct 3, 12:32 pm, Kenneth Fairfield <ken.fairfi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, October 2, 2011 6:04:26 PM UTC-7, Forster, Michael wrote:
> > Certain healthcare entities, private public mixed, rely on VMS. Ouch!
>
> [...]
>
> Please see some of my posts from earlier this
> year regarding Cerner and VMS.  The other large
> EMR vendor is Epic, and they're entirely O/S
> agnostic (anything that Cache runs on is good
> enough for them).
>
> At this point, VMS has no future in the healthcare
> industry whatsoever.  Most big users are on AIX.
> Smaller users are on other things, RHEL on Intel
> H/W being prominent.
>
>    -Ken

Right now the VA is tied bound and gagged to an old version of Mumps
which runs pretty much every VA.  Some contracts have been put out,
but, from what I have heard, the existing Mumps code cannot be ported
to Cache.