[Info-vax] Using VMS for a web server

[Craig A. Berry]

On 6/5/15 8:43 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2015-06-05 20:49:40 +0000, David Froble said:


>> My feeling is, if it''s Unix you want, then get and use Unix.
>
> OpenSSL is ported over.  CDSA is ported over.  cdrecord is ported over.
>   Apache is ported over.  php and Perl and Python are ported over. ICS
> and zic and related time-handling tools.  TCP/IP Services is ported
> over.   libxml2.  gSOAP.  SVN.  All sorts of stuff that folks are using
> and are increasingly depending on.

Also, Unix portability is not just about getting created-on-Unix
packages. I have seen e-mail traffic from people involved in producing
commercial VMS products at big-name companies who were begging for
better Unix portability so they wouldn't have to spend so many resources
customizing the build for VMS.