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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-11-18 kl. 13:35, skrev 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:
>>
> <snip>
>
>> 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
>

It was said that the powerpoint material used would be made available
on the HP-Connect Sweden web site after the visit. As soon as (or "If")
I hear somehing about that, I can post a link.