[Info-vax] Steel Industry WAS Re: VMS - what is the current thinking amongst the user community

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <op.urj93pu9hv4qyg at murphus.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>,
	"Tom Linden" <tom at kednos.company> writes:
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:54:46 -0700, dsnyder <DanielDSnyder at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> 
>> I work in the steel industry, VMS is still fairly strong yet.
> 
> We had one customer convert from VAX to Alpha 4 years ago so I expect
> they will be around a bit longer, but I had heard the Mittal might abandon
> VMS.

Another piece of bad news.  I am sure everyone here remember when I got
the big VAXen that I was able to get the department to use for a few
years here before we abandoned VMS entirely.  Well, they came from a
local Fairchild Chip Fabrication facility which moved over to Alpha,
thus freeing up the VAXen to give to the University.  Well, it was just
announced int he local paper that the facility is shutting down.  Another
VMS site gone.

bill
 

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