[Info-vax] Purveyor

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-08-22 kl. 19:37, skrev Simon Clubley:
> On 2023-08-22, ultr... at gmail.com <ultradwc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> can you ask Process to port Purveyor to intel OpenVMS? VSI should assist as they really need to offer a webserver that isn't ported from unix
>> like tomcat. Purveyor is much simpler to use.
> 
> Tomcat Bob ??? Are you confusing it with Apache ?
> 
> Why would people spend money buying Purveyor when Apache is available ?
> 
> How much effort would be involved in bringing Purveyor up to modern
> standards ?
> 
> What is the possible business case for either Process or VSI to spend
> money and time on modernising Purveyor when everyone knows Apache and
> Apache is freely available for VMS ?
> 
> And what exactly is the problem with software ported from Unix anyway ?
> A lot of code that VSI are using on x86-64 VMS elsewhere came from there
> (for example LLVM/clang/etc).
> 
> Simon.
> 

WASD is available (also for x86-64) and it is already up to the latest 
standards.