[Info-vax] New RoadMap out for VMS

[Doug Phillips]

On Oct 5, 3:13 pm, seasoned_geek <rol... at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
> 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.


Huh? Maybe you shouldn't believe everything you hear.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA

I find it odd that "one of the most widely used EHRs in the world" is
so misunderstood, especially in this group.