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

[Dave Froble]

On 10/13/2022 1:09 PM, John Dallman wrote:
> In its glory days of the 1980s, VMS got used for all sorts of technical
> computing and business IT.
>
> My employers used it as a software development system, producing
> mathematical modelling code for VMS, plus a wide range of other platforms.
> Demand for the code on VMS shrank in the 1990s, and it became expensive
> compared to doing development on Windows. We had dropped it by the year
> 2000. We'd resume support if there was significant demand for it on
> x86-64, which is why I joined this newsgroup.
>
> What do you use VMS for in the 2020s?
>
> John
>

For me and the people I've worked with, it is what's now called ERP applications.

I've always known that VMS has been used for more types of work than I can 
imagine.  Don't know what it's used for today.

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