[Info-vax] How about RdB for x86 VMS?

[JF Mezei]

On 14-09-05 15:24, Thomas Wirt wrote:

> It was the 2020 EOL that concerned businesses, not the limits of the 
> hardware.

A business that has been adding new apps to Linux/Windows instead of
their existing VMS system will not see the need for additional horsepower.

However, if VSI starts to make it possible to run modern web servers,
Postfix etc onto VMS, then perhaps companies will start to want to move
some functionality back to VMS, at which point, having added capacity
(aka  upgrade to x86) becomes important.

If engineers will be bysin with maintaining 8.4 on Poulson/Kittson and
then porting 8.4 by 2018, then it won't be until much after 2018 that
new functionality will come to VMS and start to make VMS attractive.