[log in to unmask],Net wrote at 18:08 on 14/10/98 
about "Re: MediDesk":
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>As a
>member of the National Vamp User Group, I would love to put the record
>straight 

I think it is very interesting to hear what Ahmad is up to and I 
look forward to seeing the wizard system he is talking about, it 
sounds as though several potential future suppliers are now doing it 
right.

As to the NVUG setting things straight, this would be good, but the 
NVUG has a publicly expressed policy of not doing so, of giving no 
prominence to problems "in order to protect members' investment in 
their systems", so I think it would be promotional.

<rumour and speculation>
As it happens, news has reached me that in some areas there have 
been detectable changes of which some may in due course be assessed 
as improvements since Claude took over, and certainly I found him a 
more forthright respondent than others in the company.  I think they 
could be said to be back on probation if one were kind-hearted.

The other rumours that reach me, and I find it difficult to assign 
probabilities to, are that RHI recognising that entering the health 
market was a mistake wishes to divest itself of Vamp and the rump of 
MicroSolutions; that RHI proposes to buy EMIS, whose directors took 
(apparently according to the accounts presented at Companies House) 
£6M out last year leaving working capital reserves quoted at £750k 
which might be thought to be a small reserve for producing a new NT 
system and so on.

It is very hard to make any sense out of those, but if either of 
them was true it would of course be amatter fo considerable interest 
to the users of the various systems, and might lead PCG IT people to 
takea new and intense interest in any other systems which might be 
available, particularly if they were more scalable than FoxPro or 
had lower costs per seat than MUMPS.

</rumour and speculation>

Again, the accounts of how many ex SM users are accepting RHIs offer 
of free Vision, free training, free conversion, free installation 
and merely the need to buy a server which would generally be thought 
of as remarkably powerful for Netware 3.2 compared to how many whose 
opinion is that even such a cheap migration as that does not provide 
them with what they most want, a different supplier, vary according 
to source.  
--- OffRoad 1.9r registered to Adrian Midgley


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