Vista

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Contents 1 Software 2 Organizations and institutions 3 Places 4 Persons 5 Vehicles 6 Miscellaneous

Vista usually refers to a distant view.

Vista, VISTA, or Vistas may also refer to:

[edit] Software

• AltaVista, an Internet search engine
• WebCT Vista, a learning management system from Blackboard Inc.
• Windows Vista, the line of Microsoft Windows client operating systems released in 2006 and 2007
• VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture), an electronic medical records system used by healthcare facilities of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and others worldwide
• VISTA (comparative genomics), software tools for genome analysis and genomic sequence comparisons
• VistaPro, Amiga 3D landscape generation software
• VIsualizing STructures And Sequences, a bioinformatics software
• Vista Transformation Pack, software created by Windows X to give Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 a Windows Vista-like graphical interface

[edit] Organizations and institutions

• Americorps VISTA, a national service program to fight poverty through local government agencies and non-profit orgnaizations
• Ventura Intercity Service Transit Authority, a public transportation agency in Ventura County, California, USA
• Vista Community College, now Berkeley City College, a community college in Berkeley, California, USA
• Vista Federal Credit Union, now merged with Partners Federal Credit Union, a credit union that serves employees of The Walt Disney Company
• Vista University, a now-closed South African university
• Volunteers in Service to America
• Vistas High School Program, an alternative public high school program based in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States

[edit] Places

• Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil
• Boa Vista, Cape Verde
• Buona Vista, Singapore
• Chula Vista, California, USA
• Isla Vista, California, USA
• La Vista, Nebraska, USA
• Lake Buena Vista, Florida, home to Walt Disney World Resort
• Mount Vista, Washington, USA
• Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA
• Vista, California, USA
• Vista Center, New Jersey, USA
• Vista Hundred, Sweden
• Vista, Missouri, USA
• Vista, New Mexico, USA
• Vista, New York, USA
• Vista, North Carolina, USA
• Vista, South Australia, Australia
• Vista, Texas, USA
• Vista, Utah, USA
• Vista, Washington, USA
• Vista West, Wyoming, USA
• Vista, Paimio, Finland

[edit] Persons

• Natalia Boa Vista, a character in CSI: Miami

[edit] Vehicles

• Eagle Vista, a rebadged Mitsubishi Mirage sold under the Eagle brand from 1988-1992
• F-16 VISTA, a variant of the Lockheed-Martin F-16 fighter aircraft range with thrust vector control (TVC)
• Mitsubishi Chariot, also known as Dodge / Plymouth Colt Vista Wagon, a compact MPV licensed from Mitsubishi
• Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser, a station wagon produced by Oldsmobile until 1977
• Thomas Vista, a school bus produced by Thomas Built Buses until 1998
• Toyota Vista, a passenger car produced by Toyota until 2003
• Indica Vista, a passenger car produced by Tata Motors

[edit] Miscellaneous

• VISTA (economics), Vietnam, Indonesia, South Africa, Turkey, Argentina as a group of emerging economies
• Vista (Middle-earth), a part of the atmosphere that surrounds the world of Arda in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
• VISTA (telescope), Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy
• Vista, the annual management festival of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
• VistaVision, a 35mm motion picture film format
• These Are the Vistas, the second studio album released by the jazz trio The Bad Plus
• Victoria Vistas, a former Canadian soccer club
• VISTA (Hong Kong), a private residential building in Hong Kong

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