Just to set the record straight, Caché -- which is the last man standing of MUMPS packages at the present day -- includes support for bitmaps.
It also contains support for everything else from AJAX to the kitchen sink, since it originates with several independent (and competing) OS/programming-language/database systems, originating in the late '60s before worse-is-better ate everyone's lunch. It even works as a RAD environment (plus a webserver, an SQL database, an OO programming language, and a go-between for other systems' incompatible message formats): very unusual (I expect the kitchen-sink module, or perhaps the mail reader, in the next version), but not primitive.
Its reputation is sullied by some WTF-worthy users, and by old coding conventions (now less completely abandoned than they should be) that were like Perl but hard to understand.
Full disclosure: I work for Intersystems, but not in Sales, and this post is purely on my own initiative. (One does not pay people to make unflattering comparisons with Perl.)
It also contains support for everything else from AJAX to the kitchen sink, since it originates with several independent (and competing) OS/programming-language/database systems, originating in the late '60s before worse-is-better ate everyone's lunch. It even works as a RAD environment (plus a webserver, an SQL database, an OO programming language, and a go-between for other systems' incompatible message formats): very unusual (I expect the kitchen-sink module, or perhaps the mail reader, in the next version), but not primitive.
Its reputation is sullied by some WTF-worthy users, and by old coding conventions (now less completely abandoned than they should be) that were like Perl but hard to understand.
Full disclosure: I work for Intersystems, but not in Sales, and this post is purely on my own initiative. (One does not pay people to make unflattering comparisons with Perl.)