From: Main, Kerry [Kerry.Main@hp.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 12:41 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: RE: Porting from Sun to OpenVMS

Jason,

<<<We are considering porting an application environment from a Solaris
platform to our OpenVMS platform.<<<

A few miscellaneous pointers that may be of assistance: (file 13 if seen
already)

http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/products/ips/porting.html
(OpenVMS Porting Library Routines for moving UNIX applications to
OpenVMS)

https://vmsbox.cjb.net/VMS/UNIX_TO_VMS_NOTES.TXT
(Doc Cyphers tips-n-hints on porting UNIX to OpenVMS)

http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/products/ips/netbeans/ (IDE)
"OpenVMS Engineering is pleased to provide NetBeans Version 3.4 for
OpenVMS Alpha. This is the latest release of NetBeans and is available
on the OpenVMS platform for free download. "

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnv/
http://gnv.sourceforge.net/readme.htm
(The goal is to port Open Source software to VMS with primary focus on
infrastructure to make porting to VMS easier.)

http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/products/ips/gtk.html
"Compaq is pleased to provide an updated (A2) release of GTK+ for
OpenVMS Alpha, an open source, free software library for creating
graphical user interfaces."

http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/software2.html
"This page gives an overview of the packages I'm running on my OpenVMS
system. for several of them I did some porting
work to get them working on OpenVMS. Please send your comments
tojoukj@hrem.stm.tudelft.nl"

http://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/~dyson/webalizer/
"The Webalizer is a fast, free web server log file analysis program. It
produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML
format, for viewing with a standard web browser."


Regards

Kerry Main
Senior Consultant
Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co.
Consulting & Integration Services
Voice: 613-592-4660
Fax   : 613-591-4477
Email: kerryDOTmain@hpDOTcom
    (remove the DOT's and replace with "."'s)



-----Original Message-----
From: Jason O'Donnell [mailto:jodonnell@hrblock.com] 
Sent: December 10, 2002 11:33 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Porting from Sun to OpenVMS


All,

We are considering porting an application environment from a Solaris
platform to our OpenVMS platform.

Has anybody done a something of this nature and have some
tips/warnings/suggestions they care to impart?