[Info-vax] Meditech in the news

[Craig A. Berry]

On 1/6/22 3:40 AM, Ian Miller wrote:
> On Thursday, January 6, 2022 at 4:08:27 AM UTC, Robert A. Brooks wrote:

> "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 ?

In this five-year-old statement, they are quite explicit about not
committing to support future releases or future architectures:

<https://www.intersystems.com/support-learning/support/openvms-itanium/>

Doesn't mean they won't do it if the demand is there. Since v8.5 and 9.x
for Alpha and Itanium were canceled, the question of new release support
and new architecture support are really the same question.

There is a table of supported platforms here:

<https://cedocs.intersystems.com/ens20171/csp/docbook/Doc.View.cls?KEY=ISP_technologies#ISP_platforms>

They don't say they support V8.4-2L3, but they do say they support VSI
V8.2-2L1 and that they do not separately test roll-ups or patches but
instead rely on the OS vendor to preserve quality when the base release
number does not change.  They give the example of Windows Server 2008 R2
being considered supported even though it is not explicitly listed in
the table.

Note: I have never used the M thing but this is what I could find in 5
minutes of web searching.