[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/4/2024 5:20 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 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.

I doubt that.

Mapping from one OS to another OS is not easy.

> Remember, it took less time (and resources) than that to move Linux from
> 32-bit x86 to 64-bit Alpha.

Very different task.

Adding support for a new CPU to an OS mostly written in C and
making the API's and utilities of one OS run on top of another
OS kernel are not the same.

>> Not much interest from customers.
> 
> Just think: there would have been more customers left if they’d got it
> working sooner.

Sector 7 has been around for many years. So the lack of interest in
their product is not likely to be due to timing.

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

That is something we would know about.

They have customers, but not nearly as many as those migrating
natively to other platforms.

Arne