[Info-vax] Itanium Kittson lives on?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <27fbb104-3dac-4dde-aac6-6c07bd305bfe at googlegroups.com>,
johnson.eric at gmail.com writes: 

> On Friday, February 19, 2016 at 7:09:32 AM UTC-5, Neil Rieck wrote:
> 
> > I'm not surprised. I'm not sure what is in the water in Scandinavia
> >  (the people who brought us: Linux, MySQL, and MariaDB) but 
> > I know there are a lot of OpenVMS systems running there. 
> > The same is true for continental Europe.

Well, technically, Finland is not part of Scandinavia.

> I'm curious as to your guesses as to how many firms, clusters or nodes
> there are 
> that are still in use in Scandinavia or Europe in general.

At least a few years ago, IKEA ran VMS and Rdb on Itanium.  Probably 
still do.  One company, but many installations.  A cluster in each 
store, IIRC, and of course much more in the data centre.  I think the 
country of Sweden itself is a big VMS user.  Then there are the usual 
banks, stock exchanges, phone companies, and so on.  Maybe not as much 
VMS as it used to be, but there is some still around.

My guess is that it is a few (100?) relatively big customers with lots 
and lots (thousands each?) systems.