[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Arne Vajhøj]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <9a6a39a2-4583-4156-863a-00aa25f866c4 at 3g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
> 	Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
>> After Oracle's purchase of Sun, it seems apparant that Oracle is
>> serious about getting into the enterprise business. (added bonus: many
>> academic institutions only use Sun; 
> 
> Less than you think. (Spoken as one who works for an academic institution
> that was Sun heavy two decades ago and now Sun's are as rare as VMS boxes.)

SUN was very popular at universities in the early/mid 90's.

But today it is most likely Windows or Linux or both.

Arne