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

[kemain.nospam at gmail.com]

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> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2022 7:17 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?
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> On Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 5:26:10 PM UTC-4, Jan-Erik Söderholm
> wrote:
> > Den 2022-10-13 kl. 19:09, skrev 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?
> > Production support and control. What is called "MES" today.
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_execution_system
> >
> >
> > >
> > > John
> I have direct clients in banking, manufacturing, medical lab information
> systems and other industries.
> 
> Through my job supporting emulation environments, I reach many other
> industries.
> 
> All working with systems powered by OpenVMS of various versions from V4
> up to current VSI versions.
> 
> Dan

Not specific to OpenVMS only, but like most companies today, where a mixed OS environment exists and in cases below, includes OpenVMS:
<https://www.indeed.com/q-Openvms-jobs.html?vjk=aca6c8029c23b35e>

No idea of how current these positions are.

As example:
<https://www.indeed.com/q-Openvms-jobs.html?vjk=aca6c8029c23b35e>
"The Client calculates and processes approximately $8 billion of school funding annually. The data processing systems used are a mix of COBOL and SAS programs; running on an OpenVMS mainframe; reading from Oracle databases, SAS datasets, and flat files; and writing to SAS datasets and flat files."


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com




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