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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-10-15, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Den 2022-10-15 kl. 23:49, skrev Jan-Erik Söderholm:
>> Den 2022-10-15 kl. 23:32, skrev Toine:
>>>
>>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>
> This leads me to another question...
>
> This secrecy about who runs VMS and who doesn?t, does that help VMS?
>
> Shouldn?t it help VMS if it was known publicly who actually use VMS?
>

This secrecy is well in-grained within larger organisations and for
very good reasons.

In fact, when I saw Toine had posted using the email address he did,
my first reaction was major surprise that he had done that, because
it's contrary to what I would expect _all_ large organisations to be
telling their employees when posting to public newsgroups and other
public discussion groups.

Simon.

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