RAMIS ("Random Access Management Information System") is a fourth-generation programming language (4GL) capable of creating and maintaining databases consisting of named files containing both numeric and alphabetic fields and subsequently producing detailed simple or complex reports using a very simple English like language.
Shortly thereafter his new company released a new product called FOCUS which was very similar to RAMIS: "the same bugs and the same misspelled error messages.
"[2] National CSS (NCSS), a Time-sharing vendor, licensed rights to make RAMIS available on its VP/CSS system.
[1][4] At the same time, the company decided to recall Frank Fish - originally a Mathematica consultant who had been assigned to lead a European consulting team and had subsequently formed the European RAMIS group - to head up the RAMIS II design team and International Sales.
In 1987[7] RAMIS was sold to On-Line Software International until it was acquired by its current owners, Computer Associates.