[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[JF Mezei]

Keith Parris wrote:

> 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.

Are enterprise customers satisfied with the support/maintenance services
 associated with Linux, especially when it comes to mission critical
machines ?  Or does Solaris still hold some value for important
applications ?


(this is a question, not a cynical comment, I really don't know the answer)


Also, during the 1990s, IBM realised it had priced itself out of the
market and Gerster made great strides to lower the TCO of IBM mainframes.

When Sun changed the pricing to Solaris (to $0), did that greatly reduce
the TCO of Solaris/Sparc solutions, or did it just shift costs to
support and TCO remains 10 times higher than for Linux ?