[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Arne Vajhøj]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> 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, ...

There has always been a lot of hype in the IT industry.

But somehow progress has been delivered, so it has not all
been hype.

Arne