Tag: OpenVMS

Within VMS Software's R&D organization, the use of AI has transitioned from experimentation to everyday practice, with engineers firmly integrating AI into their workflows. Getting to this point, however, was far from easy due to the fact that most off-the-shelf AI systems don't know OpenVMS and related technologies well enough to be reliably useful. In order to get to where we are today, we had to do significant groundwork to build a proprietary domain knowledge base as well as OpenVMS-specific AI plugins and skills. In this article, I would like to outline how our engineers use AI today and spotlight some of our most promising AI projects.

At VMS Software, it is our mission to protect the value that our customers have built into their applications on OpenVMS over decades. These applications are bespoke masterpieces written to cater just to a specific company and use case, they are ingrained in their culture and operations, and still functioning from thirty years ago, still running - let's face it - a large portion of the modern world. With OpenVMS now running on x86 and in the cloud, it is entirely possible for most of our customers to keep their valuable applications on this legendary platform.

It was great to be back in Malmö after several years away and to catch up with old friends and colleagues at the recent European Bootcamp. Having lived in Malmö for close on 3 years from 2017 to 2020, it was surprisingly nostalgic to be back there, and it was fun to be able to visit some of my favourite old haunts (dragging others along with me), and to see what had changed in the time since I had been away. As with the Boston event last October, the Malmö Bootcamp was without question a success, being well-attended by an enthusiastic audience full of good ideas and questions and packed with great talks by some excellent speakers.