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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/1/2022 6:16 AM, David Goodwin wrote:
> And probably the reason why there is no software for OpenVMS is that
> it's too obscure, almost certainly because of it's licensing situation.

VSI got an ISV program so licenses should not be a problem. And if
open source software a community license should work as well.

But there are other problems.

If it is commercial software then the market is small. Obviously
a concern, but difficult for VSI to tackle: too few users due to
lack of commercial software - lack of commercial software due to
too few users.

But there is a huge tooling, library and platform software
gap. Even if someone wanted to support their software on VMS,
then currently it will often be impossible due to something
missing. VSI can do something about that.

Arne