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

[Richard Maher]

On 17/10/2022 7:28 am, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

  QED !Oracle = Death