[Info-vax] The future of Ada on VMS

[gérard Calliet]

> 
> Your effort so far in building the Open source GNAT ADA compiler on OpenVMS appears to me to be the option that has made the most progress so it seems strange that VSI won't pursue this.
> 
The best summary I read.

I think VSI has a lot of difficulties dealing with the Open Source 
strategies.

Understandable in a culture of "everything is under control" (which is 
good).

But they don't understand that the survival of VMS depends sometimes on 
best effort strategies, and that Open Source could be a very good 
solution in specific cases, if the limits are known.

They have to be more relax, and more opened to all efforts in the 
community. The way they manage Open Source projects on which they are 
doing (often very good) work is also problematic : not very opened, not 
very integrated in the Open Sources communities. And I think there is 
there also a cultural issue.

About Ada, yes we hope we'll make other progresses, and perhaps VSI will 
understand we are more relax than they imagine about collaboration: 
sometimes, a little (mutual) help is worth it, without necessecity of 
stone contracts.

Gérard Calliet

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