[Info-vax] 3rd Party Dependencies, Ports and Upgrades (was: Re: Problem with Filezilla connecting to OpenVMS)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-12-06 17:07:42 +0000, pcoviello at gmail.com said:

> Part of the issue in going forward with upgrades to the latest and 
> greatest are the software companies, we had intentions of upgrading 
> from 8.4 to the latest VSI version... but Intersystems Cache does not 
> support it! sigh! now the question is do we just go up to 1H1 that's 
> supported or stay where we are... knowing that possibly 2 years down 
> the road it probably will be replaced.


Your organization has undoubtedly already discussed the InterSystems 
support plans for Caché with the InterSystems folks, and they've 
probably suggested porting your environment to a supported platform 
such as Linux.

VSI has undoubtedly also been in discussions with InterSystems, too.

Your organization is also undoubtedly well aware of the end of HPE 
OpenVMS new-patch support in ~two years, and the contemporaneous end of 
InterSystems Caché 2017.1 support.

And your organization has likely also considered whether staying with 
OpenVMS and porting to your own or to some hypothetical third-party 
port of GT.M or ilk might be appropriate and might be financially 
feasible here.

Inferring from all that and from your comments, this probably also 
means your organization is headed off of OpenVMS, and that FileZilla 
connectivity, and OpenVMS upgrades aren't particularly relevant outside 
of critical outages.

Situations and interests and resources, and personal and organizational 
agility varies widely, too.

Ports happen, platforms and strategies change, ISVs concentrate on and 
move to platforms that are or will be most profitable for them, etc.

Some folks adapt to these sorts of app and platform changes, some folks 
choose to retire, some get spun off, and some move on.


https://community.intersystems.com/search?search=openvms
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/
etc.



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