[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <758fk8F16p9dlU5 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> 
> Considering that various flavors of BSD and also Solaris run on the same
> cheap hardware and the OS base cost is the same, I think it supports my
> hypothesis that it is the hype that has put Linux on top.

   Hype runs the software industry.  Has for as long as I've been in it.
   Everything is driven by unsubstantiated hype, including UNIX, OOP, 
   SOA, B2B, .com, Windows, ...

   I could spend a day writing that list.  DEC's failure to recognise
   and capitalize on market hype was one of thier bigger failings.