[Info-vax] Rendez-vous autour de VMS" of January 31 2023 report

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/18/2023 3:41 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> English version of the meeting notes:
> 
> https://www.vmsgenerations.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/CR-rdv-31-janv-2023-EN.pdf

Good news about license.

And a status for x86-64 that matches previous message:

<quote>
On the development tools side, native C, C++ and Fortran compilers should
arrive soon, followed by Basic, Pascal and Cobol with a lower priority.

The debugger is under test and should arrive with v9.2-1.
...
The v9.2-1 delivery is announced for the first half of 2023. The 
strategic goal
is sufficient stability to allow customers and ISVs to port their 
applications to
x86. It should support AMD processors, offer better performance, most
native compilers, new documentation and a Beta version of OpenJDK.
</quote>

And Oracle status:

<quote>
The 11.2.0.4 version of the Oracle Enterprise database is the last one to be
supported on VMS and as such, potentially subject to a particular long-term
support policy (Market Driven Support).

For the Rdb family of tools, version 7.4 has Premier support until December
2025 and is recommended to all Rdb users.

There were questions about the Oracle VMS client that allows access to
remote databases. This client is not currently planned for VMS x86, the
priority of developments and ports being given to Rdb.
</quote>

Arne