[Info-vax] Help wanted : Porting code from Linux to VMS

[jaybraun2.0 at gmail.com]

I'm entering this discussion a bit late, but I do have a high-level question.  I have ported applications from OpenVMS to Linux, but was surprised that someone is going in the opposite direction.  What is the investment that your organization wishes to retain?  Is it the Itanium hardware?  Perhaps you have a product for which it is advantageous to support OpenVMS? 

Depending on the objective, would an OpenVMS virtual machine running on a Linux host serve any purpose here?  Rather that porting the Linux application, you would run it on the host, and use virtualization to support the network interface.  There would still be some hooks to code on the OpenVMS side but you would not need to port the entire application; it could be almost a black box.

Jay