[Info-vax] how many people are running X86 variant of OPenVMS in Production?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-09-28, ultr... at gmail.com <ultradwc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 27, 2023 at 8:53:13?PM UTC-4, David Turner wrote:
>> How many people are running X86 variant of OpenVMS in Production?
>> That is on the virtual machine....
>> Just want to see when I should retire....
>> ;0(

As of today, that number should be zero as x86-64 VMS is nowhere near
ready for running the mission-critical workloads that VMS is used for.

Due to these workloads, I don't think you can call it ready until at
least 6-12 months after everything is available to production-quality
standard and VMS is being built using native compilers/etc.

However, as of today, there should also be a good number of sites
actively testing it to determine if their applications work ok and
to find and report any problems back to VSI.

Don't forget there needs to be a business case for spending the money
to move to x86-64 VMS and a measured assessment of whether the new
platform at least meets the robustness guarantees that the company's
current architecture provides.

>
> they need to get it running native first before you can determine your retire date

It is running native. Do you actually mean running on bare metal ?

If so, that's a low priority as the market has very much changed
in that area.

Simon.

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