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

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <4d5bb0ff$0$41110$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl>, MG
<marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> writes:
> 
> 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.

Do you actually believe this lame excuse?
Isn't VMS allegedly "unhackable", so it wouldn't
make a difference whether the public knows or not? 
 
> In some cases, they aren't even allowed to release information 
> about it, like in the case of some government systems.

In that case, how do you know they run VMS?
 
> 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'm sure they have more sensible reasons than that,
price, availability of software, future prospects etc.

> I 
> think it'll only be a matter of time until they switch back, because 
> there have been tons of problems ever since.

Dream on. What's out the door never comes back.
Migrations always have problems. And how do you know the Dutch railways'
problems come from the "wrong" OS?