[Info-vax] Real live example...

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/20/2023 8:01 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>  From a press release last week:
> 
> "Tietoevry is a longstanding Telia partner and will serve as a strategic 
> advisor to the project, which will start at the beginning of March 2023. 
> As part of the code and data migration process, Tietoevry will harness 
> Advanced’s professional services capabilities, automated transformation 
> tooling, and runtime components to eliminate Telia Finance Final’s 
> current dependency on OpenVMS. This includes migrating an estimated 1.5 
> million lines of COBOL code plus other programming languages to the 
> cloud-ready language, Java."
> 
> Press release:
> https://modernsystems.oneadvanced.com/news-and-opinion/telia-finance-selects-tietoevry--advanced-for-application-modernization-initiative/

This is obviously bad news for VMS.

Telia is the type of company that VSI want as a customer. They got 
money. :-)

It is not shocking news.

I am sure that every year the last 20-25 years some companies
has migrated off VMS to something else.

VSI need to stop and reverse this trend.

They are working on it.

They are almost there with the first step of getting
VMS production ready for running on x86-64. That will
help quite a bit for VMS that it can run in the same
infrastructure as anything else - VMWare on-prem or
VM's in IaaS cloud or whatever the IT department is
standardizing on.

Next step should be the compilers/libraries/tools/platform-software.

Will it be easy? No!

 > Generally about their services for OpenVMS:
 > https://modernsystems.oneadvanced.com/services/openvms/

There are companies specializing in migrating
from socalled "legacy" platforms to socalled "modern"
platforms

They exist for IBM mainframe. They exist for VMS.
Etc..

Arne