[Info-vax] The Magnificent 7 (Or as Jose would say "1")

[Tom Linden]

On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:59:21 -0800, Michael Moroney  
<moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com> wrote:

> "Richard Maher" <maher_rj at hotspamnotmail.com> writes:
>
>> Last I saw, IBM MQseries was available on VMS (don't know if it went on  
>> to
>> WebSphere MQ). And then there's the old DEQmessageQ that went to BEA  
>> (now
>> Oracle as BMQ) whether that can talk to MSMQ I don't know.
>
>> Both IBM and BEA/Oracle may well have recently desupported their MQ
>> offerings on VMS ever since some self-serving HP/VMS dickhead decided to
>> bundle RTR for free - I don't know.
>
> MQ is still available for VMS although the versions available aren't
> as up to date as what's available for a PC or IBM system.

DEC MessageQ was written in PL/I.  BEA rewrote it in C and it was never as
stable as the original version.

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