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

[Robert Carleton]

On Tuesday, November 1, 2022 at 7:13:03 PM UTC-5, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 11/1/2022 3:48 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> > In article <tjrs45$erh$1... at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= 
> > <ar... at vajhoej.dk> writes: 
> > 
> >> I am not aware of buying VMS licenses should not be easy. You 
> >> contact VSI, you pay and you get your license. Anyone have had 
> >> problems? 
> >> 
> >> Some may think the price is too high. But heck I also think that 
> >> Ferrari's are too expensive as I can't afford one, but that is life. 
> > 
> > No, the issue is that most people can't get a non-expiring license. 
> > CURRENT customers are not moving to x86 because of that; getting new 
> > ones will be even more difficult. 
> >
> Customers aren't moving to x86, yet, because there are no native compilers. 
> Most will not choose cross compilers. At least that is my opinion.
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Once the native compilers are available for x86, maybe VSI could try to go after the AI crowd. There are neural nets in Fortran already:

 https://github.com/modern-fortran/neural-fortran