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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/16/2022 7:35 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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."

>> 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.

It says "data processing".

Python is the default/most common/fashion language
today for moving data from A to B.

I don't think that choice is surprising.

Arne