[Info-vax] Should VSI create a modern day VMS applications book ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/18/2018 11:17 AM, Kerry Main wrote:
>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Arne Vajhøj
>> Sent: August 9, 2018 12:15 PM
>> Yes. The applications are important. Companies usually pick the application
>> they need and then the OS that can run that that application.
> 
> Generally yes, but not all the time. As an example, a developer would have a really tough time promoting a Linux App future in a hard core Windows shop.

For something small yes.

If you are investing 10, 25, 50, 100 M$ in some application then ...

>>> Someone cheer me up with some valid VMS data to the contrary please,
>>> I'm feeling somewhat dispondant about VMS :-(
> 
> Check this out: (late 2016)
> <http://www.hp-connect.se/SIG/IKEA%20VMS%20TEAM%20Presentation%20.pdf>

I believe IKEA has been using VMS for like 30 years.

That is not a new success story.

>> And I can not point to any huge VMS success stories.
>>
> 
> See link just provided.

IKEA is not recent.

> I would also point to the Shanghai Stock Exchange (China's premier
> stock exchange) which in early 2011 dumped HP-UX and adopted
> OpenVMS/IA64 as its next generation mission critical IT multi-site
> platform. There were some online brochures created on this, but seem
> to have expired now (granted, the politics of HP did not like
> marketing anything had replaced HP-UX, but that is another
> discussion). Fwiw, some say that SSE may, at some future point,
> replace the NY Stock exchange as the center for global finance
2011 may be recent in the VMS world. Probably not so much elsewhere.

> (keep in mind who owns most of the US debt).

I believe the numbers are something like:

SSI & SSD 3 T$
Other federal government institutions 3 T$
Fed 2.5 T$
States and cities 1 T$
US privately owned 5.5 T$
China 1 T$
Japan 1 T$
Other countries 4 T$

The story that China owns all US debt is just a story.

Arne