[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 5/17/2012 12:39 PM, John Smith (who cares if I'm the one @ HP - if 
here's even still there) wrote:
> "Eric Smith"<serfsmith at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:b888d449-be8b-481f-907a-602f72f76784 at p27g2000vbl.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> 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.
>
> "All your money are belong to us", is the first thing that comes to mind.
>
>

If the code does not contain hardware or O/S dependencies, you should be 
able to compile, link, and go.  If the code DOES contain O/S or hardware 
dependencies, you are in deep trouble!  Your first concern should be to 
have the perpetrators killed!