[Info-vax] The real problem that needs solving to grow VMS

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <tjr9ag$pood$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> > Running main software ported from Linux makes little sense.  (On the 
> > other hands, utilities and so on from the open-source world would; most 
> > are compile-and-go on VMS already anyway.)  The selling point is what it 
> > always has been: clustering, DLM, HBVS, and so on.
> 
> In the 1990s, BeOS was a popular OS in certain quarters with lots of really
> genuine innovations for the time.
> 
> We all know what happened to BeOS. How do you stop VMS from becoming the
> next BeOS ?
> 
> Simon.
> 
> PS: "compile-and-go" ??? Where can I find the VMS builds of the Linux
> office applications (for example) ?

I said "utilities", e.g. tar etc.  Why use office?  Might as well go 
full-on Windows?  (I use LaTeX, which to a large extent was developed on 
VMS, but is one of the most portable programs in the world.)