Rick Marshall has begun a VistA blog with some good prose:

‘…In the beginning it had no name. Amazingly, those who fought their David-and-Goliath battle to bring VISTA to the world merely described it rather than naming it, almost unthinkable in this era of branding urges so powerful we had to coin the term “vaporware” for our empty software names. Instead, the fathers of VISTA offered us abundant anonymity, a wealth of medical informatics with no name…’