[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 15:42:57 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Lots of work to implement.

Much less than the 7 years it took to reimplement VMS on top of AMD64. 
Remember, it took less time (and resources) than that to move Linux from 
32-bit x86 to 64-bit Alpha.

> Not much interest from customers.

Just think: there would have been more customers left if they’d got it 
working sooner.

> Sector 7 has offered such products for decades. Without taking away the
> VMS customer base.

Maybe they have.