Peter: Do you work with OpenVMS?
We're actually leaning towards porting Mono (from Ximian) instead of going with Rotor. Do you know of anybody else that might be interested in such a port? Our use of OpenVMS goes back about 23 years. In fact, we even have one of David Cutler's first VMS File System developers on our staff. Walt Crosby Executive VP Terabase Corporation 10 Elm Street Danvers, MA 01923 (978) 774-7999 x114 -----Original Message----- From: Peter Foreman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 3:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Has anyone considered a port to OpenVMS? No. But I'll speculate wildly: They'll keep it going and improving it until 2010. - OpenVMS has a lot of existing satisfied customers. There is a tendency for some people to stay with what they know unless it becomes prohibitively expensive. - HP/Compaq have the capability to support it, and more importantly still make money from it. They have no reason to stop. - There is a huge amount of software written for VMS/OpenVMS systems. Naturally people will avoid porting to anything else, unless, again, it becomes prohibitively expensive. - Alpha based hardware is still going to be on sale for several years. - They wouldn't port to Itanium unless they thought it worthwhile in at least the medium term. - In terms of modern software you can still get pretty much all you need in comparison to Unix based systems. i.e. Web Server, Mail Server, Java Application Server. Everything but .Net :-( My off-topic thoughts, Peter --- Sam Gentile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is off-topic but do you have any insight into what HP will do > with it? > > Sam Gentile > Co-Author Wrox Professional Visual C++.NET (ISBN 1861005962 ) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile > http://www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile/DotNet.htm > BLOG: http://radio.weblogs.com/0105852/ > http://www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile/ScienceFiction.htm > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Discussion of the Rotor Shared Source CLI implementation > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Peter Foreman > Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 3:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Has anyone considered a port to OpenVMS? > > Still going strong, being ported to the Itanium at the moment. > > Of course it's under Compaq now... Err, make that HP.... > > --- Sam Gentile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is OpenVMS still around?-)) (from an ex-DECie) > > > > Sam Gentile > > Co-Author Wrox Professional Visual C++.NET (ISBN 1861005962 ) > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile > > http://www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile/DotNet.htm > > BLOG: http://radio.weblogs.com/0105852/ > > http://www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile/ScienceFiction.htm > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Discussion of the Rotor Shared Source CLI implementation > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Walter Crosby > > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 12:13 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Has anyone considered a port to OpenVMS? > > > > Has anyone considered, or are they doing a port of Rotor to OpenVMS? > > > > Walt Crosby > > Terabase Corporation > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
