[Info-vax] BSDs vs Linux (was Re: New CEO of VMS Software)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/16/2024 4:23 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 13:33:58 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley wrote:
>> However, when he is not making some crazy out of touch
>> comments, such as replicating the VMS APIs on Linux work ...
> 
> Consider that the entirety of the VMS APIs add up to only a tiny fraction
> of the Windows APIs. Yet an emulation layer for Windows (WINE) has been
> successfully built on Linux, and is actually seeing some production use.

If the expectation is that:

systems running emulated VMS on top of Linux / systems running actual VMS

=

systems running Windows server apps on Wine on Linux / systems running 
real Windows Server

then that confirms that there are no business case.

> And this was done with only a fraction of the resources available to VSI.

That would be a pretty big fraction.

According to Github then Wine has 873 contributors. Not all active
every year and definitely not full time.

But compared to VSI VMS engineering team (that excludes management,
sales people, compiler engineering teams and other applications
engineering teams) then the fraction must still be like 5/1 or 10/1.

Arne