[Info-vax] VMS Software needs to port VAX DIBOL to OpenVMS X86 platform

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/15/2020 12:09 PM, ultr... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 11:17:35 AM UTC-5, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> On 12/15/20 7:45 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2020-12-14, Arne Vajhøj <ar... at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>> On 12/14/2020 2:08 PM, ultr... at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> So Synergex as of now refuses to port their OpenVMS version of DIBOL to OpenVMS X86.
>>>>
>>>> That is not good.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's more like a disaster if this is also happening with other ISVs.
>>>
>>> VSI have just lost a good number of VMS users with this one decision.
>> If in fact there has been any decision. As recently as May they were
>> still soliciting input from customers and waiting (like the rest of us)
>> for VSI to get far enough along with the port that it would even be
>> possible to investigate porting Synergy:
>>
>> <https://www.synergex.com/blog/category/openvms/>
>>
>> The blog author invites people to contact him directly if they have
>> interest in seeing Synergy on OpenVMS x86.
> 
> they sent out a letter stating that as of may 2020 they have not committed to porting yet.
> Here it is:
> "Your decision-making process should take into account that Synergex has not yet committed to porting OpenVMS Synergy to the x86 platform. That decision has both technical and commercial aspects."

Not surprising that a software business look at both technical
and financial aspects.

> AND I WAS JUST LITERALLY ON THEIR ONLINE CONFERENCE JUST MOMENTS AGO AND THEY ARE HEAVILY PUSHING AN EMULATION PACKAGE. THEY SAID THE PORT WOULD NOT BE AS EASY
> AS JUST A RECOMPILE. THEY HAVE NOT COMMITTED TO THE PORT YET.

Compilers are for obvious reason not just a recompile.

But they have Dibol for VMS and they have Dibol for x86-64.

If there are customers then making it wok should be possible.

Arne