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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <lcs81c$js4$2 at iltempo.update.uu.se>,
	Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 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. :-)
> 

I'll second that.  Especially if RSTS/E is considered one of the options
as well.  With the announcement that GE Canada plans to continue using
the PDP-11 until at least 2050 I think we can say it still has a very
promising future.

bill

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