[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-09-13 kl. 16:15, skrev 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

What is written into the roadmap is:
"Shared Stream IO (SSIO) (Non-clustered)"

That "non-clustred" phrase might be an issue for some...