[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-07-29 kl. 16:33, skrev Bill Gunshannon:
> On 7/29/20 9:35 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> David Goodwin  <dgsoftnz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 9:23:52 PM UTC+12, Phillip Helbig (undress 
>>> to reply) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> How many people use CDE, Motif, DECwindows etc. on VMS?  Claims here are
>>>> that it is (today) a very small minority.  Speaking for myself, I would
>>>> have no objection whatsoever if it stays largely as is with no further
>>>> updates.
>>>>
>>>> There are WAY more-important things to do.
>>>
>>> If few people are using these things will they remain long term at all? 
>>> Does VSI
>>> plan on porting all this old stuff to x86 for the few people that use 
>>> it? Simply
>>> keeping it as is does still involve some maintenance burden (building & 
>>> testing
>>> it for new releases, fixing any security issues that turn up, etc).
>>>
>>> If they do end up removing it entirely then that comes back around to the
>>> open-source point. If the source could be released then the few people 
>>> who do
>>> use it could take over maintenance. But we now know that's not a
>>> possibility. Like with VAX, anything that drops out of support will just
>>> disappear forever.
>>
>> The way I read it, they intend on porting it and keeping it the same with
>> minimal updates.  This seems reasonable since there has been so little
>> development going on with motif and cde anyway, and since the base of people
>> developing new applications with them is pretty much zero.  And if it's not
>> zero, it should be zero because we have so many better ways of doing things
>> today.
> 
> What better way do you have to do graphics on VMS?
> 
> bill
> 

Using a web browser. That is how it is generally done today,
no matter what the server architecture is, including OpenVMS.