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

[Richard Maher]

On 16/10/2022 5:49 am, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2022-10-15 kl. 23:32, skrev Toine:
>> Op donderdag 13 oktober 2022 om 19:09:34 UTC+2 schreef John
>> Dallman:
>>> 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
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> VMS is still used to host quite some MES solutions and material 
>> handling solution in quite some car/engine manufacturing plants. 
>> Applications developed in Java, Fortran, C and Python are running
>> fine. I worked with microvax, vax stations, VAX 7000, Alpha's
>> (GS1280 was a nice machine) but the Alpha Server 1000's did also a
>> good job. After that we replaced our oldest Alpha servers with
>> Rx6600 Integrity Servers and now we are running Integrity i6
>> servers with VSI OpenVMS on it and migration is started to run our
>> applications on OpenVMS on x86. It is still a stable platform and
>> easy to monitor and manage.
>> 
>> //Toine
> 
> I see your mail address has "volvocars" in it, so I understand what 
> you wrote. Apart from IKEA, Volvo is one of the large users of VMS, 
> at least in Sweden.
> 
> 

I was about to query whether volvo cars were actually manufactured by 
Ford and "Volvo" only made trucks now. But Google tells me it's much 
worse and "volvocars" are actually made by Geely