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

[Main, Kerry]

Despite some of the efforts in this OpenVMS newsgroup to downplay OpenVMS's contributions, for Customers who have important applications where scale UP and out performance, as well as stability and security are critical, OpenVMS is very much in play.

As an example, the Shanghai Stock Exchange recently (early last year) migrated from UNIX to OpenVMS as part of their next generation trading platform. And for those who are not familiar with Shanghai, some expect it to replace New York in a few years as the center of the global financial community.

Also, some very mission critical manufacturing (e.g. SCADA) Customers who are concerned with the virus of the day have migrated from Windows to OpenVMS Integrity.

OpenVMS on Integrity manages the SMS voting on "American Idol" .. something like 100M votes during the final episode last season.

A few references:
http://tinyurl.com/59uzls (video reference)
http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA1-7999ENW.pdf (note American Idol content)
http://www.vista-control.com/itanium_success.htm (Windows to OpenVMS Integrity)


Regards,

Kerry Main
Senior Consultant
HP Services Canada
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On
> Behalf Of Wendell
> Sent: February-16-11 7:01 PM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Where is VMS used for new projects?
> 
> On Feb 16, 2:05 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> > Since VMS is not marketed, few "new" customers adopt VMS these days.
> 
> Since VMS has so little mindshare now, I wouldn't expect anyone to
> come looking for it.
> 
> I was thinking of where somebody has VMS and Unix talent in-house,
> building a system with no legacy baggage, they say "Hey, VMS is
> actually better than Unix for this, so let's get an IA-64 machine and
> go with that."
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