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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/16/2022 7:10 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 10/16/22 6:03 PM, kemain.nospam at gmail.com wrote:
>> 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."
> 
> You also neglected to mention that the job is "replacing COBOL and SAS
> on OpenVMS with Python on Windows and SQL server databases."  So it's
> not a VMS job and soon won't be a VMS shop.

Not good.

But maybe not surprising.

I don't believe that current versions of Oracle DB and SAS
supports VMS.

So they had to at least change either application or platform.

And they chose to do both.

Maybe slightly surprising that they chose Windows and SQLServer -
many would have gone for Linux and either PostgreSQL or
MySQL/MariaDB, but maybe it is an MS shop.

VMS, VMS Python and Rdb would probably have been a difficult
sell, but obviously VSI should have tried.

Long term VMS needs "new applications" to supplement "old applications".

Arne