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

[Paul Sture]

I suppose that with the benefit of hindsight I started my migration 10 
years ago when I got my first Mac.

On Tue, 15 May 2012 08:47:08 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article <4fb19c4e$0$282$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> 
>> Your server side stuff are in ASP.NET and SQLServer stored procedures.
> 
>    My server side stuff is in RMS.  SQL cannot be found.

Stuff I would have at one time put into RMS now goes into some for of SQL.

SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL.

SQLite is extremely handy for one off stuff and has approximately zero 
overhead in terms of administration and system resources.  It doesn't use 
the server / client model of the other two; it is standalone, and 
available on many platforms.  Indeed it has been pointed out to me that 
if it had been around earlier it could have replaced various bits of VMS 
which depend on RMS, not to mention things like the PCSI databases.

> 
>> Your documents and other files are in Sharepoint.
> 
>    My documents and other files are in Files-11 ODS-5.

Spread across OS X, Linux and Windows, with duplication where appropriate 
(ease of access, plus "not all my eggs in one basket" principle).

>> Your emails and calendar information is in Exchange.
> 
>    My email is in VMS mail and my calendar information is in
>    DECW$CALENDAR.

Nowadays my mail lives on IMAP, and rsync'd on a daily basis to a couple 
of different systems.  Calendar items live on the Mac, but can be 
published to a web site if required.

>> All the
>> documents are in Word and Excel formats.
> 
>    All the documents are in DSR.  No spreadsheets.

At one time all my documents were in DSR (and various word processing 
packages I have used over the years haven't come close to DSR's ability 
to produce numbered lists :-) ).   Nowadays a mixture of Pages on the Mac 
and LibreOffice.

>> You have some only
>> work in IE web apps. You have desktop apps written in .NET.
> 
>    All my web apps have been tested with lynx.  My desktops apps are
>    written in Fortran, C, DCL, and BLISS.

Web apps in a CMS, although given the constant PHP based attacks I have 
started looking at Python etc solutions which generate static HTML.  For 
desktop stuff a mixture of Objective-C for the Mac, COBOL, Fortran, C and 
DCL for VMS, whatever packages take my fancy on Linux (99% in C/C++).

>> It will take many years to migrate of.
>> 
>> 
>    I have no plans to migrate.

Fair enough.



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Paul Sture