[Info-vax] Kittson question

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Scott Dorsey skrev den 2015-01-04 15:33:
> JF Mezei  <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> In cases where the customer wants you to perfectly and completely mimic
>> their current VAX down to device names etc, is this not an indication
>> that the customer no longer has in-house VMS maintenance expertise and
>> prefers to pay you more to mimic the environment so no changes need to
>> be made ?
>
> Yes, or even worse he has software that he doesn't understand and cannot
> change.  Often this is commercial software for which source was never
> available, or locally-written code for which the source has been lost.
>
>> In a situation where someone setting up a new VMS box on that new
>> architecture I can't name,  wouldn't that imply an active VMS site with
>> in-house expertise who would be able to move their last VAX apps onto
>> any emulated instance and change device/disk names if needed ?
>
> Not necessarily.  Could be an outside consultant coming in and doing the
> job and working to get out as quickly as possible.
>
>> In other words, when looking at providing emulated VAX-VMS support on
>> the new VMS, is it really necessary to be able to mimic every different
>> VAX model with every different config ? Wouldn't a generic VAX emulation
>> based on one of the last VAX models be more than enough since anyone
>> setting it up will have the knowledge to tailor their VAX-VMS apps ?
>
> I don't think so, but it might be nice and it might make life easier for
> some customers.  I think this is much more an issue for ELN and Ultrix
> users than VMS, but I don't think there are any of those left.

I know a fairly large site which uses VAXeln for the factory
control systems manufacturing kitchen equipment.


> --scott
>