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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <tifqop$10nq$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Richard Maher
<maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> writes: 

> > 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

Sic transit gloria mundi.  I think that it was the beginning of the 
1990s when GM bought SAAB, and maybe a bit later that Ford bought Volvo.
Then a while later Geely bought Volvo.  Volvos are still being 
manufactured, but they no longer have many unique features which they 
(and Saab) had back in the day.  I think that SAAB cars are no more.  
Both companies made things other than cars, and at least some of that is 
still intact, perhaps some of that even under Swedish ownership.

To me, the demise of Volvo and SAAB is just one aspect of Sweden 
changing from a really different and innovative country into one with 
fewer differences to other European countries, in many cases a turn for 
the worst.