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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-09-02 kl. 14:42, skrev 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

That sure is an option. There is a large VM environmen...