[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/15/2022 8:04 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> National Computing Group
> West Mifflin, PA
> 
> Document, plan and execute the modernization of Fortran applications 
> running on OpenVMS systems to a virtualized Windows Server environment.
> --------
> 
> Does anyone watch for these postings and then try to convince them to
> not move away from VMS?   Or at least find out why they are moving.

It is VSI's job to monitor migrations and argue for keeping VMS.

Why people are moving off VMS are pretty well known. Generally being
on a niche platform is considered a risk. The wording above hint
that not being able to run on VMWare servers is a significant
problem for that company as well.

So if VMS 9.2 has been released 2-3 years ago then maybe (just maybe)
this company would have kept VMS. But it was not.

It would be good for VSI to push info about VMS x86-64. If I were
responsible for marketing at VSI then I would send out an offer
to join the VMS x86-86 field test program to every company that is
using VMS. Not because there necessarily will be any benefits for
them or VSI of them joining, but because it send a strong
signal that VMS x86-64 is just around the corner.

Arne