[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <0036b65c$0$30964$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> 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 ?

   Initial cost of ownership for Sun is still higher than Linux.  A lot
   of folks are in charge of project development and will look only at
   development cost and not TCO.

   This may not be good strategic planning, but it is real.  And I've
   seen no string evidence that Sun has a lower TCO than Linux these
   days.