[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Keith Parris]

JF Mezei wrote:
> Bob Koehler wrote:
> 
>>    Hard to justify Sun hardware or Solaris when PC hardware running
>>    Linux meets the "UNIX is good enough" criteria.
> 
> What about folks such as banks who chose Sun for their non-IBM mainframe
> stuff back in .com era. Wouldn't they still be with Sun because of the
> greater comfort factor about support/maintenance ?

Having worked as a consultant in a financial-services firm, about 8-10 
years ago loyalty for Sun was outweighed by the 10X cost savings of 
using Linux on commodity hardware. Web servers went to Linux in a flash; 
Sybase database servers on Sun hung on, but they were a much smaller 
number of machines.