RE: RE: Intersystems Cache database

I have some past experience with MUMPS - Run like h@#$ and don't look back. If CACHE=MUMPS it most definitely is false advertising.

Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
210-581-6217

"Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norrell, Brian [SMTP:BNorrell_at_QuadraMed.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 7:23 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: RE: Intersystems Cache database
>
> "Hospital" is the key. Cache was originally developed in the '70 for
> use in medical applications, of course, back then it was known as MUMPS
> before the PR guys got a hold of it. The UNIX types will tell you that
> any app that has been around for three decades has to have something
> going for it.
>
> Some of the DBAs around hear played with it, and were not impressed.
> Apparently recovery in the event of any failure was a nightmare.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:14 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> I've heard of them... Some guys at the last place I was at had used it
> as
> the back end for a lab results viewer at a hospital in the Boston
> area...
> They loved it... They kept telling me how great it was but I never saw
> it
> in action... I took most of it with a grain of salt since they were
> developers...
>
> As far as the 4 million users go... If you consider each hospital
> employee
> a "user"... Of better yet, each patient a "user"...
>
> :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:19 PM
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>
>
> Anyone else ever hear about them? According to the web site that have
> '4
> million users'. Seems that would have left a mark somewhere at that
> level.
>
> Dick Goulet
>
> ____________________Reply Separator____________________
> Author: "Jesse; Rich" <Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com>
> Date: 3/21/2002 1:58 PM
>
> Yeah, like that ain't a plug from someone acting like an Oracle DBA.
>
> 1) No signature.
> 2) Generic e-mail account from a generic mail domain.
> 3) No recent posts to this list.
>
> Probably just a Cache salesman...
>
> Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
> Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI
> USA
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 3:23 PM
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>
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know about the Cache database? Is it REALLY that
> robust as they claim to be?
>
> http://cache.intersys.com/cache/fb/fb_03.html
>
> Thanks.
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