[Info-vax] Meditech in the news

[Mark Berryman]

On 1/7/22 10:42 AM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 
> 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.

It may be a moot point.  Intersystems is in the process of phasing out 
Cache in favor of their Iris product.  As far as I can tell, this 
product only supports Windows and Linux (and MacOS for development).

Mark Berryman