[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/12/2021 8:13 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-09-12, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>
>> The money is in business applications.
>>
>> So COTS business applications and in-house business applications.
>>
>> Those two need the same: compilers, libraries, databases, web servers,
>> message queue servers, cache servers etc..
> 
> A good starting point will be to see what open source software IBM
> is making sure works with z/OS. That collection of software is likely
> to be the same list of applications needed for VMS.

I am not so sure.

Different server sizes (very expensive pieces of iron), different
customers (mostly huge organizations) and different integration
strategy (my understanding is that IBM does not want to run the new
stuff under z/OS but want to run the new stuff on VM's running
Linux on z).

Arne