[Info-vax] VMS - what is the current thinking amongst the user community

[Malcolm Dunnett]

Jon.Power at sector7.com wrote:
> 
> (a) Is your VMS system running mainly home grown application or
> packaged

    Mainly home-grown

> (b) If homegrown - are there any specific VMS API/ Subsystems - that
> make VMS irreplaceable (lock manager, clustering etc)

   FMS, RMS, DCL

> (d) Is there still the religious fervor associated with VMS?

   Follow this group for a few days and see for yourself.

  (after
> having to duplicate the AST/QIO/Lock Manager mechanisms - I have even
> a greater appreciation of VMS internals)

> (e) What programming languages are popular ? (no one has asked for
> BASIC or DIBOL for 2 or 3 years)

    Our VMS apps are about 50% BASIC and 50% Pascal

> (f) If VMS was going to be replaced - as VMS guys - what target would
> you lean toward (AIX/HPUX/LINUX/Solaris x86)

    Linux. Linux on Alpha or Itanium would be useful (so existing
VMS hardware could be re-purposed)