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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <05c9470d-ab55-492c-9673-61655cdc594eo at googlegroups.com>,
"clair.grant at vmssoftware.com" <clairgrant71 at gmail.com> writes: 

> > DECnet can be useful.  If there is no problem keeping it, then why would
> > anyone want to "ditch" it?  As long as users are aware of it's issues, 
> > if they then choose to use it, why not.
> 
> Short answer.....anything we do not have to port to, or support on, x86 the
> better, for us and our customers. You don't know unless you ask, so we did
> .. If a large number had said "sure, we can switch to xyz", then it would 
> have been considered - but they did not. So, we are doing it and it is
> planned for the August release.
> 
> We need to make moving to x86 as easy as possible. We cannot be creating 
> unnecessary work for the users.

Sound sensible.