[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[David Froble]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> That might be fine if you are running only code you develop in house
> and you can continuously re-compile and re-insall applications.  But
> is Banner going to do that for every University running their product?
> How about Cerner?  I realize they are gone from VMS but the question is
> as an application developer would they do that?  And provide new compiles
> every couple of weeks so you could keep up?

Don't know about anyone else, but Codis customers for the most part get 
nightly updates of any modifications to the application, and there are 
automated procedures for the distribution and building of affected 
applications.

I'm not writing this in support of EPIC, I've always thought it was a 
very stupid idea.

I used the term "for the most part" because the database code and a few 
other things are not included in the automated updates.