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

[IanD]

On Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 9:41:35 AM UTC+11, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Den 2016-11-09 kl. 21:07, skrev IanD:
> 
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> 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).
> 

wow, that visit must have been a site to behold :-)

I think the term 'drool' is closer to the mark. To be surrounded by that many vms instances! lol

What interesting feedback too about vsi and brett and bringing in others etc to add new blood to vms - all stuff I and others have been concerned about