[Info-vax] VSI presentations today.

[Mark DeArman]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 17:25:11 +0200, Jan-Erik Söderholm
<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:

>Hi.
>
>Was earlier today at the Swedish HP-Connect VMS-SIG annual
>meeting, and there was some presentations from the Swedish
>VSI office. It was said that the presentation material would
>be made available in some way, but here are a few notes...
>
>Jan-Erik.
>
>On the way:
>- CSWS based on V2.4-38
>- Samba based on 4.6.5
>- OpenSSL 1.1.1 "a couple of weeks away"
>- New IDE based on "MS VS Code". Free of charge.
>- WebUI. Web interface to common VMS mgr tasks.
>
>"Over the nest months":
>- "Low-cost cluster", wasn't commented further, as I remember.
>- VSI TCPIP 10.6
>
>"First boot is hours away". Number of hours not specified...
>I think that estimate was a couple of weeks to a month.
>
>Screen shots of VMS booting up to SYS$LOGINOUT in STARTUP was
>shown, and the DCL prompt is just around the corner.
>
>New IDE:
>- Get MS VS Code from MS.
>- Get VMS extentions from "MS MarketPlace".
>- No additional softare on VMS, all done through SSH.
>- See https://www.vmssoftwaretraining.com/wiki/VMS_IDE for info.
>
>Info from HPE:
>- HPE stops selling "HPE VMS".
>- Talkes to get HPE to become a "VSI Reseller" to support current cust.
>- HPE has an interest in VSI and VMS to succedd, due to royalties from VSI.
>
>VSI quickly commented on "Hobbyist licenses".
>- It is "in the works".
>- Maybe a self-service portal with free downloads.
>
>

This is very exciting news on the IDE front.
I've been looking at what it would take to get ptvsd working on VMS
recently also.

Mark