[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Eric Smith wrote 2012-05-16 09:08:
> So the writing appears to be on the wall, and after scouring the web
> and chatting to colleagues, I've finally been convinced that our large
> business-critical application currently running on OpenVMS (IA64) has
> to be moved to something that will be supported fifteen years down the
> line.
>

Have you actualy talked to HP ?
No matter what you think about HP or if you belive anything thay
say, there is absolutely no reason *not* to talk to them.


> Since this is a niche community, I'm appealing to anyone in the know
> to find out who specialises in COBOL system migrations, specifically
> *from* OpenVMS, to any modern platform (interpretation: Windows or
> Linux)?  I'm looking for someone to come in and do the whole job and
> leave us with a system that behaves just as it did before.

I do not think this is possible without you participation.
A very risky project.


JF Mezei wrote 2012-05-16 09:53:
 > You need to make a policy decision of whether you are to go for open
 > sourced OS (less likely to be killed by the whims of one or more CEOs)

But more likely to be killed by the community. There are currently some
(some says big) problems with support/development of some former active
OSS stuff now when "everyone" jump on the app train.

The mantra saying that "you can support it yourself" or "just hire someone"
just isn't good enought for a professional business. That is, a business
that is not an IT-business itself (Google, Facebook...)