[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Dave Froble]

On 8/5/2021 4:09 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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?
>

I played with Virtualbox some time ago.  Not to run VMS, just to learn a 
bit about running WEENDOZE instances.  Took a few hours, not days or 
weeks.  You make it sound like a major effort.  It is not.

So yes, I'd expect people to use a VM, if that got them any advantages.

-- 
David Froble                       Tel: 724-529-0450
Dave Froble Enterprises, Inc.      E-Mail: davef at tsoft-inc.com
DFE Ultralights, Inc.
170 Grimplin Road
Vanderbilt, PA  15486