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Same reason IBM still sells tons of big iron: Your company built something on it in 1985 and the risk is too high if they have to port it over to anything else
by lenerdenator 2y ago
Same reason IBM still sells tons of big iron:
Your company built something on it in 1985 and the risk is too high if they have to port it over to anything else, so you have to build on top of that.
- icedchai 2y agoIf risk is a factor, you won't port it to VMS x86, either. You'll leave it running in an Alpha or VAX emulator.
- bbatha 2y agoThere's fortunately a lot less of this. The last new VMS server SKU was launched in 2004, and HP stopped production in 2015. Unlike IBM which launches new hardware every few years and has continued to update the OS. The risk calculation is completely different. However, there are certainly still laggards on the platform who are being led around by the barely funded VMS x86 project.
- numpad0 2y agoBut that thing probably fits on few floppies and don't even know about npm, so there are not a lot of moving parts and there is no fear of malicious npm packages ever. What's _technically_ wrong about that?