[Info-vax] Questions and observations about OpenVMS

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <s23c2b$o97$2 at gioia.aioe.org>, Forrest Aldrich
<forrie at forrie.com> writes: 

> 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.

There is WASD, still actively supported.  Dave Jones retired, but the
OSU server is at SourceForge and I think that Dave still might do the
occasional bug fix and so on.  I am not familiar with the former, but
the latter works fine, can do HTTPs and so on. 

Except for some things like ZIP where the whole point is compatibility 
between different systems, when you think of software on VMS, don't 
think of a port from another OS, like Apache (originally "a patchy 
server", really!), but rather something written with VMS in mind from 
the ground up.  Much better, much easier, much more fun.