[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[Dirk Munk]

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Den 2016-10-03 kl. 15:11, skrev Robert A. Brooks:
>> On 10/3/2016 7:03 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>
>>> But then again, I'm sure that VSI will make its decisions based on
>>> what their (future) paying customers asks for.
>>
>> Yes, absolutely true, although the voices of the current paying customers
>> are relevant, also.
>>
>
> I expect that those two groups will be mostly the same... :-)
> At least in the short term.
>
> But my point was, that I'm not sure that the voice of c.o.v always
> correlate with what VSI hears while talkning to their customers.
>
> I'm not sure either, that "DECnet over IPv6" will make a lot
> of new VMS customers to line up outside the doors of VSI.
>

That's hardly the point. The IP world wants us to change from IPv4 to 
IPv6, that means that all functionality should be made available on 
IPv6. Otherwise you break something, in this case DECnet V/OSI over IP.

Breaking something without a proper replacement is never a good idea. Or 
did you find a 100% IP replacement for DECnet somewhere?


> But, we'll all know in a few years... :-)