[Info-vax] Questions and observations about OpenVMS

[Forrest Aldrich]

Hi all,

Thank you for these comments, it's great to learn.

As for security vulnerabilities and reporting, a better more reasonable 
licensing program by VSI would make it easier to get OpenVMS more 
exposure and benefit from the numbers.  But again, VSI may not care 
about that, at the moment.

In looking on the VSI website, I haven't found any statement(s) of 
future direction for OpenVMS.  It would be useful to know -- but again, 
their large customers (who pay tons for existing systems) may not be 
motivational.

A part of my interest includes a bit of nostalgia (such is my age), but 
in a sysadmin capacity, I'd like to understand what my "options" are out 
there.  Especially, if I were to work in a position that had VMS -- or, 
understand where VMS might be more appropriate (or not).

I saw a listing of open source software that's been ported to OpenVMS, 
but I'm surprised there isn't a web server yet (ie: Apache, NGINX, etc). 
  Could be that wouldn't be useful for what OpenVMS is doing.



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