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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-10-16, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
> On 10/16/22 6:03 PM, kemain.nospam at gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>> 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."
>> 

So VMS is a "mainframe" once again ? (At least in job adverts) :-)

>
> 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.
>

HTH do you get from needing COBOL to deciding Python is the right
choice here ? :-(

Python is very good at many things, and I use it for a good variety of
things, but this is _NOT_ what I would be using it for.

I wonder if Python has been chosen here on the basis of fashion, instead
of on technical merits.

Simon.

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