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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-12-15, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 12/15/2020 12:09 PM, ultr... at gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>

I really hope VSI are actively talking to Synergex about both of these.

Even if VSI have to provide a lot of support/resources to help make this
happen, they may get the investment back many times over if the customers
of the developers using Synergex on VMS start buying VMS on x86-64 to run
these applications.

This assumes that the existing developers using Synergex on VMS have not
moved away from VMS by now because they have managed to form the impression
that VMS has no future.

Simon.

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