[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Arne Vajhøj]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Let's face it.  VMS has been on life support since 1995 or, perhaps, 
> even earlier than that.

As long as Alpha were being developed and 64 bit support, Galaxy,
Spiralog, Snapshot etc. were being developed, then I would not call
it life support.

 >                         Most people are making do with some flavor of
> Unix, Linux, Novell, Windows, or some combination thereof!  I think 
> their Total Cost of Ownership is less than it would be with VMS.
> 
> Would your boss buy a VMS License for $2000 U.S. if Linux would do the 
> job for "free"??  If Solaris could also do it for free??
> 
> I loved working with VMS but love pays no bills!  We paid an arm and a 
> leg for the systems in the first place and the other arm and leg went 
> for hardware and software support.
> 
> Everything we did with VMS could have been done with Novell at far less 
> cost.  When the company was acquired, the new owners did just that!

With some variations that has happen a lot of places.

Arne