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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-02-04 17:14, JF Mezei wrote:
> 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.

I have a different suggestion. All you who once moved from RSX to VMS. 
Welcome back. I promise to support RSX for many years to come. :-)

	Johnny