[Info-vax] OpenVMS V9.0-C Released July 29th

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-08-09 kl. 19:28, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
> In article <hpakqhF8cihU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Diversified enough that we used to have a local pizza shop that
>> had a MicroVAX running VMS and HDS Terminals as their POS and
>> telephone order handler.  One day I went in and the POS were
>> Windws boxes and when I asked I was told the old system went
>> into the dumpster.  :-(
> 
> Apart from academia (in the old days) and the well known things like
> stock exchanges, mobile-phone systems, and so on, I've seen VMS in the
> wild at IKEA (not just the back end, but in the stores; not that long
> ago, the cashiers had a VT520 or whatever)...

Some years ago I was offered a 4 month consultant job at IKEA in there
project to move from Alpha to Itanium for all the stores local systems.
This was on-site at the IKEA IT HQ i Sweden and the job was done
remotely against the stores world-wide suring their closed time.

So for most of the European stores, this was night job. Since I live
at the other side of Sweden and I had a hard time to be away all week,
I never signed the papers sent over. Shortly after (14 years ago) I
got my current assignment instead.

4 years ago, the Swedish VMS-SIG of HP Connect had a meeting at the
IKEA IT HQ. They had an impressive system to plan and execute software
updates (that is, the IKEA software) on the store systems. As far as I
know, all IKEA stores still have an VMS system.

At the time, the personell in the store had VT-terminals to look up
things customers asked about and you could get inventory and so on.
Today they are Windows clients where you can actually also *see* the
products discussed...



  and at the Dutch police
> department (an FMS application).
>