[Info-vax] Rdb/x86

[IanD]

On Thursday, November 26, 2020 at 8:02:45 AM UTC+11, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <rpm85v$spg$1... at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 
> 

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> Rdb engineers have said, publicly, for years now that they expect Rdb to 
> run on VMS a short time after the first boot. Old news.

Care to point out where? (Genuine question)

If you have to resort to some information buried in an old email or some some smelly old static web-page somewhere then it's not really any good for most people other than those already in the know

I wasn't asking for official statement or clauses that might get vsi into hot water by stating something that might give a legal beagle an 'expected outcome' but surely we could have something put up to where we can send people to to shows things beyond the official x86 port are happening and where those browsing might easily stumble across it

What's wrong with a Rumor's mill page?

For example: https://www.gsmarena.com/rumored.php3

Google Rumor Mill and you'll get 10,600,000 results. Have quick browse of them and you'll see how they are being used

Rumor mill pages typically have some factual basis to them but they come without official endorsement

For example, those working on open source aspects of vms can post there to show what they are working on a new release of say php or mysql. At present this information has to be gleaned by listening to the discussions that get recorded each month and/or written up in the summary notes on Sourceforge

Approximate time frames might or might not be included but what they do is give people the idea that life is still there and that things are still happening

Rumor mills are great advertising focus points

Every tiny angle should be used and explored, irrespective of whether people believe it will yield 20% sales increase or 0.2% sales or none

HP already put a bullet into vms and that event was pushed very loudly around the globe and that was really the last great bit of vms news heard at scale. Most shops I talk to still don't know who vsi is and they still think HP are getting rid of vms