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From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Subject: Re: Why are VSI so focused on Sweden ?
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:08:37 -0400
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On 10/28/2024 2:52 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-10-28, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 10/28/2024 9:21 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> Is the remaining European VMS userbase really so heavily weighted to a
>>> single smaller (by population) Northern European country instead of being
>>> spread out more evenly across Europe ?
>>
>> Sweden does have VMS users. But so does other European countries. I
>> would expect UK to have more than Sweden. Bigger country.
> 
> That's what I thought as well.

Sweden does have VMS users left. And so does the UK.

I believe VMS is mostly gone from Denmark. Despite once
being very widely used .

Back in the 80's and early 90's VMS was used by several
big manufacturing companies, 2 out of 3 telcos, 1 oil company,
1 mid size bank, several parts of the government, lots
of educational institutions (out of 9 big higher education
institutions, then 3 were VMS shops, 3 used VMS some places
and only 3 did not use VMS).

Arne