[Info-vax] A new VMS?

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-05-01 kl. 01:53, skrev Dave Froble:
> On 4/30/2021 6:28 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2021-04-30 kl. 17:34, skrev Dave Froble:
>>> On 4/30/2021 8:48 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>>
>>>> We had a meeting today around a larger change project for our
>>>> envionment and I had some points on not to invest developer time
>>>> using tools that are not available on x86, but they were more
>>>> interested in how this OpenVMS "thing" could be thrown out...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm curious Jan-Erik.  What were the reasons for wanting to "throw
>>> out" VMS?  Reasonable?  Or bigotry?
>>>
>>
>> Good question. Their VMS systems is simply "something from the past"
>> that has to be replaced sooner or later. There is nothing but issues
>> as it is right now. Old and desuported hardware. Issues to get staff
>> with OpenVMS knowledge. Not a "standard" platform.
> 
> Ok, next question.  What is a "standard platform" ?

It depends, of course. But a platform that is a few % of the total
IT environment (for this customer) is probably not seen as "standard".