[Info-vax] Where is VMS used for new projects?

[MG]

On 16-2-2011 11:09, Wendell wrote:
> Everything I've found online gives the impression that OpenVMS is used
> only in the case of maintaining old legacy systems. Is that it? I
> mean, is there any field where people given a choice will still prefer
> to implement something new with VMS?

The problem with VMS, in the 'popularity contest' sense, is that many of 
the systems that it runs on often host, provide or process sensitive 
data and therefore wouldn't be in the interest of the owners, operators, 
benefactors and so forth of such systems to let too much be known of 
them.  In some cases, they aren't even allowed to release information 
about it, like in the case of some government systems.

Besides the list that Ian Miller provided you with, from what I read, 
VMS is particularly big in the public transit sector (France, Belgium 
and India, to name a few).  The Dutch railways used to run VMS, but a 
bunch of 'hip' IT/ICT reformers decided to switch to Linux because they 
thought it was "more sexy" (literal quote, I read it in a local 
journal).  They also admitted that they didn't switch to Linux because 
it was more capable, solely because of the aforementioned reason...  I 
think it'll only be a matter of time until they switch back, because 
there have been tons of problems ever since.

  - MG