[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/12/2021 7:17 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 9/12/2021 6:45 PM, John Dallman wrote:
>> In article <shldvp$1jl$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
>> wrote:
>>
>>> But to me the focus should be obvious: operating systems are
>>> sold by applications - VMS needs more applications, so work
>>> should focus on getting more applications developed for and
>>> ported to VMS.
>>
>> Yes, but which applications? What fields of computing will give the best
>> return for VSI?
>>
>> I doubt, for example, that Libre Office or Firefox will be especially
>> worthwhile. Current GUI apps are likely to need more than the X11/Motif
>> stack, and providing Qt looks like a big job. Databases, middleware and
>> the like might well be more worthwhile.
> 
> 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..

Apropos.

https://vmssoftware.com/resources/blog/2021-09-09-thinking-of-moving-to-postresql/

<quote>
SSIO (Shared Stream I/O) is mentioned on our roadmap, and once this is 
available, customers will be able to run PostgreSQL (and other 
applications requiring SSIO) natively on their OpenVMS systems, which is 
most definitely something to look forward to.
</quote>

I like the use of the phrase "once this is available".

:-)

Arne