[Info-vax] Reimplementing VMS, was: Re: HP adds OpenVMS Mature Product Support beyond the end of Standard Support

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Simon Clubley wrote 2014-02-05 00:49:
> On 2014-02-04, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>
>> The problem is that to do a proper migration to Unix, you don't need a
>> guy who understands VMS well, you need a guy with Unix expereince who
>> can tell you the best way to get things done in Unixland. Hence, we are
>> worthless.
>>
>
> Speak for yourself JF. :-)
>
> Some of us here know more than one operating system (and that doesn't
> even include the additional non-mainstream stuff that at least one of
> us (ie: me :-)) does at home.)
>
> Simon.
>

And besides, understanding the application and business logic
is way more important the knowing *any* OS anyway. Many VMS
systems will probably simply be replaced by something else
(COTS) and not a single line of VMS code will move anywhere.