[Info-vax] OpenVMS V9.0-C Released July 29th

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/3/2020 11:25 AM, clair.grant at vmssoftware.com wrote:
> On Monday, August 3, 2020 at 12:23:48 AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2020-08-02, John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> wrote:
>>> New additions targeted for the 26-August V9.0-D release are:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>       DECnet IV
>>
>> Seriously ? That's a priority target ? How many of you are still using
>> this in production for VSI to justify porting it at this time ?
>>
>> The only place that stack should be is in the computer history museum.
>>
>> I hope VSI are giving the stack itself a good audit while porting it
>> because if the TCP/IP stack suffers from security issues, then you
>> can safely assume the DECnet Phase IV stack does as well (just like
>> any other networking stack does).
> 
> I tried my best to ditch DECnet on x86 but there are just too many
> customers using it (we asked, it was very disappointing).
What has kept VMS alive the last 15 years? Systems that did what
they did and the owners did not want to change.

Guess what. Now VMS has a door open to the future, but the same
customers does still not want to change.

Arne