[Info-vax] Questions and observations about OpenVMS

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-03-07 kl. 21:11, skrev 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.
> 

Could be that there is alrady a web server that is "better" that those
that you mentioned (WASD). http://wasd.vsm.com.au/