[Info-vax] Purveyor

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/23/2023 12:07 PM, ultr... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 8:12:32 AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-08-22, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.... at telia.com> wrote:
>>> WASD is available (also for x86-64) and it is already up to the latest
>>> standards.
>> Oops, I completely forgot about WASD when posting that reply. Sorry Mark. :-)
>>
>> So, there you go Bob, there is indeed a nice modern web server for VMS
>> that is not a port from Unix and which you can use today instead of
>> waiting for an apparently long-obsolete Purveyor to somehow be
>> resurrected even though there's no longer any possible market for it.
> 
> and what happens when Mark can't support purveyor anymore?

Same as with any other open source or commercial product
where the people behind it decide to stop support.

If it is open source then somebody else can potentially
take over the support.

> Tomcat means apache unix garbage,

As already explained then Apache Tomcat is a servlet container that
are able buy not intended to work as web server like Apache httpd.

Apache Tomcat is Java based not native code. And while Apache httpd
was first developed on *nix, then it does work on many other platforms
including Windows and VMS.

Arne