[Info-vax] Development Tooling

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/16/2018 4:59 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <pv65gm$3um$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>> OpenVMS just isn't going to be big again in scientific computing.  Not
>> any time soon...
> 
> With x86, performance is just as good as with other operating systems.
> I remember when people who didn't know VMS at all wanted to work on my
> machine because the compilers were better.  Perhaps VSI can revive that
> tradition.

The problem is that a lot of scientific computing today is done in
very large clusters. That means a lot of OS instances.

They can get Linux for free.

There is not much business value for VSI lowering VMS license
cost to make the cost of VMS negligible in this market.

Arne