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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/15/2020 12:12 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2020-12-15 16:12:13 +0000, Arne Vajhj said:
>> PS: It seems quite obvious from that roadmap that .NET Core is what 
>> they see as the future.
> 
> .NET is the OpenVMS calling standard a couple of decades on, and .NET is 
> widely available, so that perception hardly surprising.
> 
> There've been previous newsgroup discussions around porting .NET core to 
> OpenVMS.
> 
> I remain skeptical that the addition of .NET support will be a 
> particular draw for folks to choose and use OpenVMS. This too as the 
> older OpenVMS support for Microsoft COM/DCOM/OLE didn't see a 
> substantial uptake.

COM and .NET Core (just .NET after latest rebranding) are
very different.

I think .NET on VMS would be very interesting.

But also a huge task.

So it will not happen anytime soon.

Arne