[Info-vax] Porting to Linux instead of x86-64 VMS, was: Re: 3rd party SATA SSD usage on RX2660+P400 in a production environment?

[Neil Rieck]

On Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at 1:22:47 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-07-02, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> >
> > And in two or three years, we'll either be starting to replace these 
> > existing servers with x86-64 and ports to that, or we'll be starting up 
> > the Linux ports again.
> >
> 
> Are people actually talking about doing the latter ?
> 
> If so, is this due to the current VMS on x86-64 timescales or is
> it due to some lack of information coming out of VSI ?
> 
> If it's the latter, is there anything VSI can do at the moment to
> give both management and technical customer employees more confidence
> in the future of VMS ?
> 
> Simon.
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
> Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world

IMHO, the thing that will slow the adoption of new software on OpenVMS is the tool set. And here I am talking about VMS-C and VMS-C++ which do not yet support the C11 or C18 standards. For example, I have heard from several people that both MySQL and MariaDB applications after version 5 require C11.

I have been told that VSI is aware of this and is working on C11 as we speak. This whole problem was caused by HP (now HPE) who decided to let this fruit die on the vine.

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
http://neilrieck.net