Re: Intel buys Wind River

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 2:41:11 PM UTC-6, Dan'l Miller wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 2:05:57 PM UTC-5, Shark8 wrote:
> > Having a good up-to-date compiler for the release of x86_64 OpenVMS may even prove to be more
> > beneficial than VxWorks, ultimately
> 
>   How so?  VxWorks is at the heart of lots o' stuff in the hardware-with-embedded-software world, including IoT nowadays.

Simply because I believe Ada ought to be considered for more than *just* "hardware-with-embedded-software world". AdaCore heavily pushes Ada as high-integrity and embedded, and while it *is* suited to those rolls, the impression I've gotten at first blush is that it's presented almost in exclusion-of your normal "general programming" solution.

A tangentially related example: AdaCore has and maintains Ada Web Server... which they don't use on any of their websites. / Having your own public-facing systems running your own products is a good way to show confidence in them.

> Is OpenVMS still seeing new accounts added at all?

Simon answered about VSI; the port to x86_64 should be done in 2019. I would be surprised if, after releasing an x86-port they *didn't* accept new customers.