[Info-vax] PL/1 on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/20/2012 8:09 AM, Chris Brown wrote:
> I'm back into IT again, I've still got the coffee shop but my plan was
> always to get back into consultancy and where better to start than the
> VMS community!
>
> So along those lines I have a potential opportunity and I'm looking
> for advice/help from the group. I'm advising a group of people are are
> looking to buy a software company whose key product is essentially a
> language translator (i.e. Cobol to Java, Assmebler to c# etc.),
> according to the company they can pretty much take any input and spit
> out the required platform independent code. At this point in time I'm
> assuming the product does as it says on the can (we are running
> seperate technical evaluations) and so I'm concentrating on business
> oppportunities and while thinking where would be a good place to start
> I suddenly thought about the VMS PL/1 base who when I worked for the
> VMS group tended to feel a bit uncomfortable regarding the way forward
> for their applications. So I wondered would this product be of
> interest to those customers, I know Kerry Main used to get involved
> with some of them, so Kerry if you are reading this forum get in
> touch, but if there are others out there who have an opinion or some
> advice then please get in touch I'd appreciate hearing from you.
>
> In the meantime take care and hopefully I'll be in touch with some of
> you soon

PL/I to Java byte code would provide lots of options.

Arne