Terry Shannon also suspects that research and development cutbacks at Digital Equipment Corp are threatening its two-year-old effort to produce an architecture-independent version of the OpenVMS operating system. He says the project appears to have been put on indefinite hold. The sacrifice may be part and parcel of the wholesale downsizing of DEC’s software empire that is now under consideration, and another reason for software vice-president Dave Stone to have fled for pastures greener. Such plans, which could put some of DEC’s software into care and maintenance mode, and some of it into the morgue, don’t appear to have affected DEC’s flagship database, Rdb which is said to be being rewritten in C to run under OSF/1 and may also get put up under Windows NT.
