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

[Richard Maher]

Hi Simon,

"Simon Clubley" <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote in
message news:49caa95f$0$90272$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk...
> On 2009-03-24, Jon.Power at sector7.com <Jon.Power at sector7.com> wrote:
> >
> > So much for the bits and bytes - Obviously, the projects we see these
> > days are no longer the 'low hanging fruit' - we are - as always -
> > focused on complex code migrations - I would be very interested in
> > understanding what the VMS users "feel about" VMS. We seem to be
> > seeing large corporations with UNIX as the focus - that have a VMS
> > server / cluster that is working perfectly - but - represents a very
> > small percentage of the organizations skill set - and yet is as
> > mission critial as any other server.
> >
> > We wont be soliciting / calling or even emailing - but - If anyone
> > feel so inclined I'd especially like to hear:
> >
>
> In my case, I'm not interested in your services, but if you want
> clarification on anything below, feel free to email.
>
> > (a) Is your VMS system running mainly home grown application or
> > packaged
>
> Home grown applications.
>
> > (b) If homegrown - are there any specific VMS API/ Subsystems - that
> > make VMS irreplaceable (lock manager, clustering etc)
>
> I don't think there's any one major thing for me, but it's more a series
> of little things (DCL environment, print/batch processing, etc) that the
> application code tends to take advantage of.
>
> > (c) Is there any 'software' that would make life easier - I hate to
> > use the DEC I14Y "Interoperability" - only because - I still miss
> > DECUS / New Orleans and the TGV guys paying a for several great nights
> > out.
>
> Not really in my case. A few years ago, a formal effort to provide a
> continuously upto date web infrastructure of the kind available on Linux
> would have helped keep that function on VMS for me, but now I'm
comfortably
> established using Linux for that role.
>
> Given what's happened to the support for web infrastructure in VMS over
> the last few years, I'm glad I made that jump when I did.
>

Just curious as to how you are currently exposing your VMS-based data,
business rules, and perhaps code/logic, to your web-facing architecture?
Also, did you end up going LAMP, Windows/IIS, or a.n.other?

>
> Simon.
>
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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Cheers Richard Maher