| Title: | POSIX for OpenVMS - Public forum |
| Notice: | Internal users of V2.0 please register in note 909 |
| Moderator: | STAR::PARKE |
| Created: | Fri Jan 04 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1370 |
| Total number of notes: | 5127 |
As you may already know, we are currently evaluating the possibility of retiring POSIX for OpenVMS within a couple of years from now. This is due to several business and strategic reasons that I'm not going to explain here (if you think that you may need this information, please let me know). At the same time we are trying to understand the impact of this decision on our installed base and to find out what are our customers' concerns and requirements for migration to alternative solutions. We would like to make a final decision within the end of June 1997, therefore I'd like to receive feedback on this matter by mid June (Sunday June 15) from anybody who is in contact with customers using POSIX or from whoever can provide useful information. Many thanks, Vittorio Mezzano
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| 1370.1 | Here's a large customer who uses Posix | EVMS::EVERHART | Mon Jun 02 1997 13:23 | 12 | |
Philips Medical Systems uses Posix.
BTW, what will "retiring" Posix mean? Would the old kits continue
to work? Would the code be donated to DECUS so someone who REALLY
needed to keep it going might do so?
There are a rather larger number of folks who use Posix as a way
to edit with vi, read/write tar tapes, or otherwise perform some
operations that the Posix utilities are "good enough" for, regardless
of the underlying implementation details like container file system.
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