[Info-vax] Real live example...

[bill]

On 2/20/2023 9:12 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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..


The really funny thing about this is while migrating from legacy
hardware to modern hardware for reasons like availability and
expense are probably valid, that doesn't mean you should re-write
your applications into totally different languages.  In particular
going from a language designed to do the work you need done to a
language with no particular target for what it is supposed to do.

bill