[Info-vax] VMS Bootcamp 2016 Trip Report video available.

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-11-09 kl. 21:07, skrev IanD:
> This was well worth the listen and clarifies a lot of the stuff one sees
> on the VSI slides
>
> Was the video cut short? You state just under 2 hours yet it abruptly
> ends at 82 mins at the start of a question (which I hope was about a
> hobbyist program!!!, Something not covered in the 82 min)
>
> It would also be nice if the video could be downloaded rather than just
> streamed because I like to play a video as an audio only when driving/on
> transport
>
> Sorry if I didn't pay attention to who the various speakers were but a
> hat tip to whoever it was that asked some direct and at times pointy
> questions. This recording didn't play out like a VSI marketing promo at
> all, there were some quite frank questions put to VSI


> ...and I was equally impressed at VSI's grander vision for VMS, I
> believe they actually understand the importance of some key concepts and
> their importance, like attracting new minds to the platform, opensource
> and even licencing (briefly we saw some of the flexibility mentioned)

This was one point covered by the different folks from VSI at the
presentation held as part of the visit to IKEA IT HQ in Sweden. VSI main
investor Johan Gedda was attending most of the day and held one of the
presentations. If I understood correctly, VSI has hired some younger
guys directly from the "KTH Royal Institute of Technology" in Stockholm
to be part of an local VSI office in Sweden. It was my understanding that
this office will mainly work with "the future" parts of VMS. Open source,
modern development tools and so on.

Or in other words, those parts that are (belived to be) needed to attract
new customers that so far hasn't even heard about VMS.

Brett Cameron will (still as I understood it) lead this group and spend
half of his worktime in Sweden.

Over all it was a nice visit to IKEA. Approx 380 Itanium systems, one
localy at each store world-wide handling most parts of the logistics,
inventory, goods in/out and so on. Then a data center with another 50
systems or so for dev/test. Most dev/test on HPVM. Growing with 10-15%
per year (or in other words, 10s of new stores a year that needs new
setups of the store handling package and new hardware).





>
> Thanks so much for making this available and the work done (because it's
> still an expense) to get this out there for all
>
> So, was the presentation 82 mins or was it closer to 2 hour's? (Only
> asking because of where the video got cut)... And can we have it as a
> download (it a ripped audio would be just as good).
>
> And since I'm asking for the world, are the slides available too? They
> are hard to see on a mobile device :-)
>