[Info-vax] Micro Focus to be acquired by Open Text

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/2/2022 8:30 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2022-09-02 kl. 14:24, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>> On 9/2/2022 4:54 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>> Den 2022-09-02 kl. 02:09, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>>>> So an application using those national variants should
>>>> probably have been rewritten sometime in the mid 90's
>>>> to use ISO-8859 (and rewritten again late 00's
>>>> to use UTF-8).
>>>
>>> I did write a document with a suggestion to change our
>>> applications from 7-bit NRCS to 8-bit MCS (ISO-8859-1).
>>> That was in 2008 and it was never done since the system
>>> was planned for decomission in "3-4 years" anyway...
>>
>> The wellknown:
>>
>> $ write sys$output f$fao("This system will be gone by !SL", 
>> f$cvtime(,,"YEAR") + 3)
>>
>> syndrome.
>>
>> :-)
> 
> Correct. It has been "3-4 years" since I come there in 2006.
> Apart from last year, when it changed to "at least 5 years"...

They are softening up.

:-)

> Realy hard to do any long-term planning for the systems.
> We are still running on the same DS20e/666 systems that
> I installed in May 2006.

Maybe they would consider VMS x64-64 running on ESXi
VM's.

Assuming the company already runs dozens/hundreds/thousands
of ESXi VM's, then it could make sense.

Arne