On 12/24/2018 4:00 AM, Waitman Gobble wrote:
Looks like it ships with "compaq c compiler". Which is probably out of date.
But some effort to use llvm/clang or maybe it's working? Looks like theres a
'new' version of OpenVMS coming Q1 2019. I am guessing their customers are
enterprise corps using legacy 1970s software and databases? I have a friend who
made a fortune doing COBOL consulting, because there are still alot of legacy
apps in production. And all the COBOL programmers are like 90. Lol.
Not sure who would want to deploy a new app on OpenVMS / COBOL. But maybe i am
just /*ignorant*/
Oh, the applications and systems are much newer than that. A former
client of mine has just started on a 3+ year project developing a shiny
new system. If they hadn't developed a fascination with paying illegal
alien wages I would be on that project now. Guess I will wait until this
"priced right" developer fails like the last one did. They "can't
afford" to pay what a qualified developer costs, but they can afford
multiple years of abject failure. The first one strung it out for two
years . . . Keller MBA logic.
Not that it matters, but that application is written in C/C++. They have
quite a few systems in quite a few languages. One core system in VAX BASIC.
Amazon.com wasn't around in the 1970s yet they rely on OpenVMS to run a
major part of the business.
Some customers are enterprise corps. Many others are small businesses.
The two major vendors of Credit Union software with the largest
installed base both run on OpenVMS so, if you are in a city/town large
enough to have a Credit Union, odds are it is running OpenVMS. If you
don't live far from a nuclear power plant, same thing. Used to be the
same situation with both paper and steel mills world wide, not certain now.
It's a balancing of risk. There maybe hundreds of thousands of tiny
embedded systems running Linux (possibly with a Qt application)
interfacing with one specific thing, but, they all communicate with a
trusted control platform which has up-times measured in decades. Irish
Rail had an OpenVMS system running 24x7 for 18 years controlling
everything. The only reason it was rebooted was for Y2K testing.
Qt is now feeling some of the same pressure. For certain there is a
large segment of developers focusing on phone apps with a life span
measured in months, but, Qt is increasingly being used in medical
devices where the lifespan (and need for support) exceeds a decade. One
system (don't know which one it is) still operates on OS/2 using Qt 3.
Every year or two someone reaches out about possibly working on the project.
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