Ah yes. . . Because of those lobbying efforts, the VA tried the "newer" technology at three of it's medical center. Each site failed, miserably. > ---------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Gordon Moreshead > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 3, 2004 10:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] We need a news stories library > > Don't forget the huge lobby efforts in and around Washington (because of > heavy government use of M) that have worked very hard for years to cast M as > "old Technology". > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cameron > Schlehuber > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 9:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] We need a news stories library > > And then there are the power plants that still use ... gasp! ... steam! > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ormsby, > Skip > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 9:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] We need a news stories library > > Hmm... I wonder if those folks who use the "old technology" argument, > don't drive a vehicle that uses a piston engine? After all the piston > engine has been around for a very long time. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 10:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] We need a news stories library > > Kevin, > > You are battling an age-old predjudice against M. It seems M was > considered "old technology" (by the un-informed), before it was old ! I > think alot of the predjudice goes back to the poorly chosen (IMO) name > of MUMPS, for the language. > Had it has been named "Laser" or maybe just "M" in the beginning, it > might have enjoyed a different trajectory. > > Certainly the biggest M vendor understands the marketing difficulties > with system based on MUMPS. One has to look hard for any references to > it in their marketing material. Instead, it is called post-relational, > object oriented, and multi-dimensional. All of which is true. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joseph > Dal Molin > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 9:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] We need a news stories library > > > Consider it done Kevin....great idea....especially the part about > delegating Nancy to do the work :-) > > Joseph > > Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > > Someone from my group was grumbling recently that VistA is going to be > > > a bad option for our group because is it "old technology." > > > > And then Bhaskar posts regarding a Thai Bank converting to GT.M. And > > Nancy regularly posts ongoing news about VistA etc. > > > > Could we start a subpage on the WorldVistA web site that lists these > > news stories, so I could take someone there and show them at a glance > > all the ongoing activity? It would help prove that M / VistA is not > "dead". > > > > I'd like to nominate Nancy to be the one to regularly add to such a > > page.. :-) Nancy, you can thank me later. LOL! > > > > Kevin > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. > > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=29914/*http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid > reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. 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