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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/15/2022 9:04 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-02-15, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> 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.
> 
> By the time a porting effort gets to that stage, it's usually too late
> as emotionally they are in a place where they have decided they need
> to get rid of the old system and only the details of how that is to
> be done needs to be worked out.
> 
> What is interesting however, is why now instead of, say, 5 years ago ?
> 
> Did they initially wait for VSI to complete the port to x86-64 VMS,
> but now, 7.5 years later without a production-ready version of x86-64 VMS,
> did they finally decide to move away from VMS ?
> 
> I wonder if anything could be done to keep other customers waiting
> a little longer, or if it's simply too late and some customers have
> decided to finally move from VMS ?
> 
> One problem might be that you can't emulate an Itanium system, unlike
> an Alpha system, so people might be having concerns around the age of
> their Itanium systems.

Another possibility is Oracle.

I found the ad and it said Oracle.

And Oracle announced end of VMS support for Oracle DB
client in October 2020.

October 2020 + problem analysis + budget approval
sort of fits with a project start spring 2022.

On the other side I am not sure about the Fortran support
in Oracle DB client.

Arne