[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <sef7om$i74$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> >>> Current customers presumably.  There are probably folks waiting in the
> >>> wings, maybe until VMS runs on bare-metal x86, before they consider
> >>> whether to port.
> >>
> >> VSI has said this will happen.
> >
> > Right.
> >
> >> So why would anyone wait?  For today,
> >> VMS on x86 is the future.
> >
> > Right.  But if people want to port their application to bare-metal x86,
> > few if any will start before that bare-metal x86 is available.
> 
> Now that is just plain wrong.  VMS is VMS, regardless if running in a VM 
> instance, or not.  Actually, VM instances will be better for porting 
> work.  One doesn't need a production level computer to do porting work.

Sure, but do you expect people with no previous VM experience to learn 
about VMs just to port VMS so that they have a head start on the time 
when VMS doesn't need a VM on x86?