[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey (Was: READ and WRITE...)

[Subcommandante XDelta]

Subcommandante XDelta:
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 03:46:45 -0800 (PST), Keith Cayemberg
> <keith.cayemberg at arcor.de> wrote:
> :
> :
>> There are many examples of OpenVMS being used for Real-Time
>> applications, especially apps that required resources beyond the
>> capabilities of embedded systems at the time. To my knowledge the
>> Flight Control System governing the entire North Atlantic airspace and
>> based in Iceland is still running on OpenVMS. There are also several
>> radar systems, military communication systems and satellite control
>> systems running on OpenVMS. 
> 
> May we assume that some of the VMS userbase, at least, would have
> strong opinions about the extinction of VMS if they knew it was on the
> drawing board?

Mr Mezel, in a recent conversation thread, estimated, IIRC (senior
moments notwithstanding), that the remaining VMS end-user population
might be circa 100,000 shops.

So this topic is not about who or what those shops are, but rather what
they are using VMS for.

Port the FCS cited above to NSK from VMS, with new generations of
Bohrbugs and Heisenbugs to iron out? - not bloody likely.