[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Hi.

Just got an email from the "HP-Connect Sweden" OpenVMS-SIG.

I'm trying a quick translation from swedish here:

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Hi.

Our last info-letter contained concernes about HP going to shut
down development of OpenVMS. It nows seems as HP is going to
fullfill that plan. This far there is nothing saying otherwise.

HP will not support OpenVMS on their i4-servers, so no servers
newer then i2 will run OpenVMS. This also meens that OpenVMS
now more or less is "frozen", and that patches will be issues
less frequently.

OTOH, HP will prolong sales of i2-servers, and will support
OpenVMS V8.4 for a long time ahead. But the fact stands, with
a product that is not developed, we risk to lose support from
other ISV's whos productes we depend on.

This also meens that OpenVMS probably will not be a supported
guest-OS under HPVM version 6.

We, that runs OpenVMS, does that for a reason. It's very stable
and it simply works damn well. Our applications often makes good
use of VMS-specific features.

Many of us has also done attempts to migrate to other platforms but
these attempts has for different reasons not been followed through.

The applications that we still run on OpenVMS are very business critical,
which might be one reason the migrations has not been completed. For
some reason one has not dared to complete the migration since a failure
could be catastrophic for the business supported by the applications.

Given that HP will not change it's mind, we now are forced to migrate
these critical applications to another target platform, and we can
not afford to fail in this effort.

We will therefor invite to a SIG-workshop, the 22'th Januari 2014 in
Stockholm. Specific time and place comes later, but count on a full
day where we walk through the available options and discuss the
possible routes to take.

We will have several guest-speakers, but it will be an interactive
work-shop with an open dialoge members in between.

See you the 22'th Januari.
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When the place and time is available, I will concider going
to this meeting.

Jan-Erik.