[Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?

[Scott Dorsey]

Edgar Ulloa  <ulloa.edgar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>But in our days, you consider that there will be new jobs will it be just k=
>eeping the current one until it is migrated to another operating system? Wh=
>at do you think?

When I was in college, every class pretty much used a different computing
environment, so I got basic experience in a whole lot of different operating
systems and programming languages in the process just as a free bonus.

So I don't particularly feel bad about moving to one more operating system
after having spent much of my life moving from one to another.

But, that said, I miss commercial grade operating systems that are 
database-centric with the filesystem and database being integrated.  I
think that is a good approach for commercial applications, what we once
called "ADP."  Perhaps the future isn't VMS but I would like to see some
of the concepts within VMS integrated into future commercial systems.

As software becomes more and more expensive, I think the need to have an
efficient operating system that provides database features in the kernel
becomes more important.
--scott
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