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

[JF Mezei]

On 14-02-04 18:22, Keith Parris wrote:

> The goal of the UNIX Portability Initiative, aka OpenVMS Open Source and 
> UNIX Portability Project, which Bill Pedersen has been very active in, 
> is the opposite of what it appears you're thinking -- its goal is to 
> make it easier to port Open Source and UNIX software so it can run on 
> the proprietary OpenVMS operating system.


Considering the message "move off VMS ASAP" is pretty loud these days,
is there a point of continued efforts to bring standard apps to VMS.

>From the day a company decides it needs to move off VMS, it will not
want to add new applications to VMS as anything new will be on the
target platform.

And the first things to move from VMS to the new platform will be the
stuff which already exists on Unixland (such as PHP, Perl, Apache etc)
sicne those are the easiest to move off VMS.