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

[Jouk Jansen]

Jon.Power at sector7.com wrote:

> (a) Is your VMS system running mainly home grown application or
> packaged
home grown & Opensource freeware

> (b) If homegrown - are there any specific VMS API/ Subsystems - that
> make VMS irreplaceable (lock manager, clustering etc)
The excelent compilers + runtime errors + debugging facilities, which 
makes development fast even on a relative "slow" "old" Alpha

lock-manager is used

clustering saves a lot of time for managing the systems..

> (e) What programming languages are popular ? (no one has asked for
> BASIC or DIBOL for 2 or 3 years)
The home grown applications consist of 90% fortran90, 4.8% C, 4.8% C++ 
and .2% Pascal

> (f) If VMS was going to be replaced - as VMS guys - what target would
> you lean toward (AIX/HPUX/LINUX/Solaris x86)
> 
linux is already used for production.

                         Jouk