[Info-vax] AXIS2/C, gSOAP

[Neil Rieck]

>
> And would you not have preferred the VMS license-payer money and other
> resources that were consumed by gSOAP to have been spent on industry
> standard Axis2/C from the Apache foundation? Would you not like HP/VMS
> support for your critical middleware? Maybe you'd like the money spent on
> WSIT (a product as seemingly useless to your customer as everybody else's)
> given to gSOAP and that product given official support? Then all you have to
> do is pay the goal-keeper his cut and evryone's a winner, chickens for
> dinner!
>

Well, as I've said previously, "Yes, I would have liked HP to do an
official port or AXIS2/c". There are probably more similarities
between "AXIS2/Java" and "AXIS2/c" so I suspect it would be easier for
HP to do the port than anyone else. They probably have written several
tools to semi-automate the process.

But I also "know we live in the age of uber-capitalism". Management
always needs to be seen doing something to "increase profits" or
"decrease costs" or both. This means it is very likely that HP will
not officially support OpenVMS forever. They will never be able to
sell it for a decent amount, and they would never put it into the
public domain (unless they were allowed to incur a large write-off).

But if HP set up an OpenVMS self-support site modeled after
"Apache.org" they (HP) could still own OpenVMS while volunteers would
maintain it. In the beginning years volunteers might get cheaper (or
even free) licenses. Perhaps (initially) HP would only open up a site
like this to developers working in other companies. These companies
would leverage "their code-support investment" by reselling OpenVMS
licenses. HP would get their cut for doing nothing.

"OpenVMS Software Guild" anyone?

Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/