[Info-vax] VMS Software Releases Roadmap Updates

[Dave Froble]

On 9/28/2021 6:44 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2021-09-28 kl. 22:40, skrev Dave Froble:
>> On 9/28/2021 2:53 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>> Den 2021-09-28 kl. 20:11, skrev Dave Froble:
>>>> On 9/28/2021 1:36 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>>> On 2021-09-27, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't think it was the money.  Bill is a bit old fashioned, like
>>>>>> me,
>>>>>> and just feels the build tools should be native.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You've never done any embedded work have you ? :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No, I have not.
>>>
>>> Note that, what Simon calls "embedded" today, it just the same kind
>>> of development that was once done for VAXELN. You wrote, compiled
>>> and linked your application on one system and then deployed on
>>> another system. Your application booted directly without any
>>> underlaying operating system.
>>
>> Well, if one wants to look at it from this perspective, we don't do
>> any development on customer systems.  Yes, we compile and link there,...
>
> Why on earth do you force your customers to pay for compilers?
>
>
>> but, we don't really have to do so.  Executables could be moved from
>> out development environment to customer systems.
>
> Really?
>

Past practices, continuing from inertia.  The internet hasn't always 
been here.  Most of that software existed from the past, so, not so much 
paying for anything new.

There is always the chance of needing to do something, while on-site, 
and the convience of having the tools available.

The cost is a whole bunch less than what your customer pays for Rdb.

:-)

Also, there is no forcing.  If a customer wanted pre-built executables, 
we'd be happy to do that.

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