[Info-vax] VSI: "Official 8.4-1H1 Launch"

[David Froble]

Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2015-06-04, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> 1) Roadmap
>> http://www.vmssoftware.com/news/VMS_Software_Roadmap.pdf
>> 2) History: Some stuff that needed rewriting has already been
>> rewritten in earlier ports (VAX->Alpha->IA64). 
>> 4) The official VSI roadmap [1] talks about binary translation (static
>> and dynamic) in V9.0 on x86-64 in 2017.
>> 8) That's all readily available published information. You want more?
> 
> 16) The current VSI roadmaps are indeed rather detailed, but I wonder if
> VSI have decided yet what they are going to do about Ada on x86-64 ?
> 
> I know the last time it was raised in comp.os.vms, the VSI response was
> that the Ada situation is complicated.
> 
> Simon.
> 

Well, you got to figure, if it's complicated, then they are looking at 
it.  If they weren't going to consider it, how could it be complicated?

I'm wondering whether there might be licensing issues.