[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Dave Froble]

On 11/14/2020 7:41 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 11/14/2020 2:35 PM, John Dallman wrote:
>> In article <roosmk$ga0$1 at dont-email.me>, jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com
>> (Jan-Erik Söderholm) wrote:
>>> Read my lips, there will *never* be a "modern" browser running on
>>> VMS servers having features up to date with browsers on desktop
>> systems.
>>
>> Is there some fundamental impossibility to porting Chromium or Firefox?
>> Or do you simply reckon nobody will go to sufficient effort?
>
> Everything is possible given enough time and money.
>
> But todays browsers are huge code wise.
>
> It may very well be a bigger effort to get Chromium/FireFox
> running *well* on VMS that to port VMS to x86-64.
>
> I will cost a fortune.
>
> And having a browser available on VMS will not generate
> much revenue.
>
> There is no business case.

Of course there is a business case.

Phillip will pay $20 million for each VMS desktop running the browser.

:-)

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