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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rgpnea$3mm$1 at dont-email.me>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
writes: 

> > 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.

Presumably at the IT headquarters in Hälsingborg.  I applied for a 
permanent VMS job there once, a long time ago.  I didn't get it; I was 
probably no. 2 and no. 1 accepted the author.  We arranged the interview 
to be at the end of a two-week holiday in Sweden, during which my wife 
and I spoke Swedish with each other the whole time (and with other 
people, of course) so that I could get some practice.  We arrived in 
Hälsingborg and I told my wife that I would ring her when I was finished 
and we would meet up back at the same place.  I figured that she could 
look around the harbour for an hour or so.  It was five-and-one-half 
hours until I was finished (after which I had the impression that my 
Swedish was OK).  Although, for various other reasons, I'm now glad that 
I didn't get an offer (which, then, I would have accepted, meaning 
moving to Sweden), it was an interesting experience.

> 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...

A few years ago I was at IKEA and heard one of the employees complain 
that the Windows stuff wasn't as good as what they had had before.  :-)