[Info-vax] The future of Ada on VMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-05-24, gérard Calliet <gerard.calliet at pia-sofer.fr> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

"Best effort" is ok for some open source stuff but it isn't good enough
for an Ada compiler in a production environment.

It's a product that is going to be used for Really Important Stuff and
it needs to have the support to match. You can't just say to the customer
6 months later "sorry, but we don't know how to fix that. Goodbye.".

Simon.

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