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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <tibgba$21co2$1 at dont-email.me>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
writes: 

> Den 2022-10-14 kl. 02:09, skrev Dave Froble:
> > On 10/13/2022 6:49 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2022-10-13 at 23:26 +0200, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> >>>> What do you use VMS for in the 2020s?
> >>>
> >>> Production support and control. What is called "MES" today.
> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_execution_system
> >>
> >> Would that be IKEA? I heard they are one of the last hold-outs still
> >> running VMS.
> >>
> > 
> > I believe one of Jan-Erik's customers is Husqvarna.
> > 
> 
> Not that it really matters, but yes. :-)
> 
> Some years ago I was close to sign for a work at IKEA
> as part of their Alpha to IA64 migration at all stores.

I once applied for a VMS job at IKEA, and got as far as an interview in 
Hälsingborg.  We scheduled it at the end of a two-week holiday in 
Sweden, during which my wife and I spoke only Swedish.  :-)  (Both of 
us learned Swedish as adults and neither had ever lived in Sweden, 
though I've probably spent about a year there altogether, spread out 
over many years.)  I told her that I would ring her when I'm finished 
and we could meet where we parted and during that time she could walk 
around the harbour or whatever.  Thought maybe 45 minutes or at most an 
hour.  I came back five hours later (and convinced that my Swedish was 
usable).  I didn't get the job; I have a feeling that I was no. 2 on the 
list but no. 1 accepted the offer.