Should I switch to VMS for software development?

[Eric J. Johnson]

Help!  The new boss has decided that we no longer need our 3B15 running 
UNIX System V for software development, but can get along instead with
a VAX 11/730 running VMS.  :-(

Our software development duties including the building of language products
(using yacc/lex, etc.) and communications interfaces, and the porting thereof
to a number of target operating systems (lots of flavors of Unix, VMS, PC-DOS,
OS-1100, etc.)  UNIX for us has been an excellent platform for us in this
type of work.

If anyone has put together a list/report comparing UNIX and VMS for software
development, or has their own insights, I would greatly appreciate hearing 
from you!  As you might guess, I am rather fond of UNIX and would like to
keep it around.

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