[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/4/2024 2:25 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 09:56:31 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> She seems more focused on new ways (CI/CD, web etc.) than how DEC did
>> things 40 years ago.
> 
> If she is less invested in how DEC used to do things, maybe she’s the one
> to put in place the program I suggested sometime back: get rid of most of
> VMS itself, leaving only the parts that users care about--namely their
> userland programs and DCL command procedures. All that could run on an
> emulation layer on Linux.

Not likely.

Lots of work to implement.

Not much interest from customers.

Sector 7 has offered such products for decades. Without taking away
the VMS customer base. Apperently VMS customer prefer to either stay
on VMS or port to Windows or Linux instead of running VMS emulation
on top of Windows or Linux.

Arne