Editing MUMPS (section)

=== 2000s ===

* By 1998, the [[middleware (distributed applications)|middleware]] vendor InterSystems had become the dominant player in the MUMPS market with the purchase of several other vendors. Initially they acquired DataTree Inc. in 1993. On December 30, 1994, InterSystems acquired the DSM product line from DEC.{{r|Grabscheid_19950102}} InterSystems consolidated these products into a single product line, branding them, on several hardware platforms, as '''OpenM'''. In 1997, InterSystems launched a new product named [[InterSystems Caché|Caché]]. This was based on their ISM product, but with influences from the other implementations. Micronetics Design Corporation, at this time #2 on the market, was acquired by InterSystems on June 21, 1998. InterSystems remains the dominant "M vendor" owning MSM, DSM, ISM, DTM and selling its IRIS Data Platform (and, until 2018, its predecessor Caché) to M developers who write applications for a variety of operating systems. Also Intersystems did not use the term M anymore, neither followed the M standard. 
* Greystone Technology Corporation's GT.M implementation was sold to Sanchez Computer Associates (now part of [[Fidelity National Information Services|FIS]]) in the mid-1990s. On November 7, 2000, Sanchez made GT.M for Linux available under the [[GNU General Public License|GPL]] license{{r|Sanchez_20001107}} and on October 28, 2005, GT.M for [[OpenVMS]] and [[Tru64 UNIX]] were also made available under the AGPL license.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/files/ |title=GT.M High end TP database engine |publisher=Sourceforge.net |access-date=2013-08-12}}</ref> GT.M continues to be available on other [[UNIX]] platforms under a traditional license.
* During 2000, Ray Newman and others released MUMPS V1, an implementation of MUMPS (initially on FreeBSD) similar to DSM-11. MUMPS V1 has since been ported to [[Linux]], [[Mac OS X]], and [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] (using cygwin).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/mumps/files/ |title=MUMPS Database and Language |publisher=Sourceforge.net |access-date=2013-08-12}}</ref> Initially only for the x86 CPU, MUMPS V1 has now been ported to the Raspberry Pi.
* Released in April 2002 an '''MSM''' derivative called '''M21''' is offered from the Real Software Company of Rugby, [[UK]].
* There are also several open source implementations of MUMPS, including some research projects. The most notable of these is [https://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/ Mumps/II], by Dr. Kevin O'Kane (Professor Emeritus, [[University of Northern Iowa]]) and students' project. Dr. O'Kane has also ported the interpreter to Mac OS X.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rychannel.com/mumps |title=Mumps/Mii |publisher=Rychannel.com |date=2012-11-08 |access-date=2013-08-12}}</ref>
* One of the original creators of the MUMPS language, Neil Pappalardo, founded a company called [[MEDITECH]] in 1969. They extended and built on the MUMPS language, naming the new language MIIS (and later, another language named MAGIC). Unlike InterSystems, MEDITECH no longer sells middleware, so MIIS and MAGIC are now only used internally at MEDITECH.
* A lightweight implementation is MiniM from Eugene Karataev which halted development in 2024<ref>{{cite web | url=https://thedarkaugust.blogspot.com/2024/11/minim-database-server.html | title=The Dark August: MiniM Database Server }}</ref>
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