[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[JF Mezei]

MG wrote:

> You do realize you wrote the above on comp.os.vms, right?

The experience in transitions from VAX to Alpha and then the Alphacide
are very relevant to what will happen to VMS on IA64.

The information from the Oracle court documehts, when combined with
observations from HP and Intel's actiosn and statements (or lack
thereof) since 2004 also point to a very clear path. And that path does
not include vms.

So if you use any piece of software that is VMS specific (indexed files,
products such as All-in-1 etc) then you need to start thinking about
porting strategies because we all know that it takes time to make a
succesful port from VMS to some flavour of Unix.

Many porting attempts from VMS to Unix or Windows failed over the years.