[Info-vax] VMS Software: New US Mailing Address

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-10-12, Marc Van Dyck <marc.gr.vandyck at invalid.skynet.be> wrote:
>
> Most of the software packages that we are using today won't be ported
> to X86. That includes, but is not limited to, Oracle Classic client,
> the old Polycenter products (now owned by Broadcom), the $Universe
> multi-platform scheduler, Axway Transfer CFT, etc. We're going to have
> to find replacements for all that, and review all our home grown apps
> to use them. So for us, no the VSI ISV program is not particularly 
> good.
> And I do not see any reason why we should consider ourselves as an
> exception.
>

Unfortunately, when architectures are changed not all packages make it
across to the new architecture.

For example, VAXELN was abandoned when the move to Alpha occurred and
it looks like there will be no Ada compiler for x86-64 VMS.

The question is, just how major are the packages that are being lost ?
Oracle Classic is a major example of something that has been lost, but
that's tied to VMS in general, not just x86-64 VMS.

There's been no negative comments about Rdb recently, so I assume that
is still on course for release on x86-64 VMS. Of course, if Rdb wasn't
released for x86-64 VMS then that would be a very serious blow to VSI's
plans.

So the question is, of the other packages Marc uses, how many of them
are in general use within the VMS user base as a whole ?

Simon.

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