[Info-vax] Gartner report on VMS future.

[ChaosLess]

On Sep 18, 3:43 pm, "P. Sture" <paul.nos... at sture.ch> wrote:
> In article <00A91990.738D6... at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
>  VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
> > Sector 7 has been in business for over a decade, IIRC, touting their
> > migration services because VMS is/was dying next week.
>
> I was getting this kind of stuff from vendors in 1991.
>
> --
> Paul Sture

S7 first helped migrate a customer from VMS in about 1987, i was part
of S7 then - and have been back for many years now.  Some ISVs on VMS
use S7 libraries to offer software on VMS and on multiple *nix
platforms.  Those ISVs land many new customers every year, with each
customer having hundreds to thousands of workstations.  They can offer
their customers the same software on VMS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and
Linux.

S7 also helps migrate from VAX VMS to Itanium.  There have been some
engagements where that was our recommendation.  Preparations/
assessments for this move are also valuable in determining issues for
moving to *nix platform at some point, for which every customer wants
to have at least a plan.  that's just the way things are.

S7 products are also available (w/o services) as software libraries
for linking w/VMS C, COBOL, Fortran (for which we have a
preprocessor), and BASIC (for which we wrote a separate compiler),
sometimes other languages.   These libraries today achieve 50k lock
ops/second on 4cpu Opteron Quad (Solaris10), are fully multithreaded,
provided scalable AST delivery, logical names, event flags, lckmgr,
timers, etc... all features that are used in production every day.

in about 1990, we had the same market 'guru' types telling us we were
in a doomed market that would end with the demise of VMS in the very
near future.  we chose to believe rather that companies would value
their investment in software for VMS and look to keep that value (and
business fit) even as they, inevitably, would be moving platforms some
day.