[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 01/31/2018 09:13 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/31/2018 4:03 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
>> On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 10:03:14 AM UTC-6, Bill Gunshannon
>> wrote:
>>> On 01/24/2018 10:56 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> Healthcare is the majority of Mumps market. And healthcare is the
>>>> only domain where Mumps is a major player.
>>>
>>> And, ANSI-M is the majority of Healthcare (well, except for one 
>>> extremely large portion that is done in COBOL :-).
>>
>> The only piece of healthcare I know Mumps to virtually own is the VA
>> (not a small thing by any means.)
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS#Current_users_of_MUMPS_applications
> 
> <quote>
> Other healthcare IT companies using MUMPS include Epic, MEDITECH, GE 
> Healthcare (formerly IDX Systems and Centricity), AmeriPath (part of 
> Quest Diagnostics), Care Centric, Allscripts, Coventry Healthcare, EMIS, 
> and Sunquest Information Systems (formerly Misys Healthcare). Many 
> reference laboratories, such as DASA, Quest Diagnostics, and Dynacare, 
> use MUMPS software written by or based on Antrim Corporation code. 
> Antrim was purchased by Misys Healthcare (now Sunquest Information 
> Systems) in 2001.
> </quote>
> 
> EPIC is the biggest. >
>>      I would ass-u-me so, but, I don't know enough about NoSQL
>> databases to know if they could fully replace Mumps.
> 
> MUMPS is a NoSQL database.

I've been telling people that one, too.  Since before Mongo even came
into existence.  :-)

bill