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VMS (OpenVMS)
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Legacy
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VMS is an operating system operating system developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) to run on VAX/VMS micro-computers.
The system has been used very successfully over the past few decades in many different industries ranging from world-wide semiconductor manufacturers to large health care systems and insurers to municipal fire and police departments. DEC was purchased by Compaq and Compaq in turn by Hewlett-Packard (HP). It is now called OpenVMS and runs on older VAX machines, newer Alpha machines (both of which were manufactured by DEC/Compaq/HP) and new Intel Itanium processors. VMS is still in use today and is sold and supported by HP, one of the premier computer manufacturers in business today.
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Experience
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VMS experience is hard to find, especially in an active, modern consultancy. Although not by design, Mantos Consulting, Inc. happens to have decades of experience spread across multiple people. That experience ranges from system administration, including ground-up system installation, user and security management, a wide range of storage and hardware configurations, and performance management; through programming in various languages including low-level interaction with native system calls, file formats, and databases including RMS, RdB, DBMS, and Oracle.
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Current
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Because of our experience, we regularly do significant work in VMS. We are not people who "used to work" in VMS. We have done so within the past year, if not the past week. One of our largest clients is a global semiconductor manufacturer with operations world-wide who uses VMS. We travel overseas and work from our home office in Albuquerque. For other customers in other states, we typically provide remote services using VPN technologies and using our own Windows-based and VMS computers (yes, we really have access to working Vaxen and Alphas.)
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From past to present
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Many people who ask for our VMS help have legacy data on legacy systems and would like to move it to a more modern system. For example, we have converted RMS-based databases to Microsoft SQL databases. We have written custom application programming interfaces (API) that allow the customer's non-VMS programmers to interact with VMS systems using mainstream languages and platforms such as Microsoft Visual Studio. |
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