[Info-vax] Meditech in the news

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/6/22 10:46 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/6/2022 10:27 AM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>> On 1/6/2022 4:40 AM, Ian Miller wrote:
>>> On Thursday, January 6, 2022 at 4:08:27 AM UTC, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>>>> On 1/5/2022 10:46 PM, George Cornelius wrote:
>>>>> Oh, and as a VMS guy I was eventually stuck back at VMS 7.3-2 because
>>>>> Intersystems refused to port to newer versions or to Itanium, and by
>>>>> that time they owned Digital's DSM as well as their own (M/VX or ISM).
>>>> InterSystems supports Cache on IA64 on VSI's VMS V8.4-1H1
>>>>
>>> "InterSystems supports Cache on IA64 on VSI's VMS V8.4-1H1"
>>
>>> That's good but do they plan to support current VSI VMS V8.4-2L3 ?
>>
>> Ask InterSystems.
> 
> If someone really wants to know then that is the obvious route.
> 
> But the question and the other question whether they will support VMS 
> x86-64 are interesting.
> 
> One may not like MUMPS and its variants. But the healthcare sector
> got money. That makes it an interesting market for VMS and VSI.
> 
> There are lots of markets that are extremely price competitive
> and where VSI's VMS price will be compared to RHEL and various
> no-cost Linux distros and every hundred dollars count.
> 
> But for a big hospital chain that spend hundreds of millions
> of dollars on IT every year, then VMS Licenses and 24x7 VMS
> support will be white noise in the budget.
> 
> Potentially very good customers.
> 
> But only potential customers if the application software is there!!
> 

And, as far as I know, The VA is still running VISTA which is
also an ANSI-M (otherwise known as MUMPS) application.  I wonder
if any of them are on VMS?  If not, what are they running on and
could VMS find away into that rather lucrative niche.

As a side note, because it is freeely avaialble to anyone who wants
it VA VISTA has been turned into a lot of other EMR systems including
things like Dentists and even Veterinarians.  Could be a lot more
business in this niche than most people think.

bill