[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Arne Vajhøj]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <49ee7288$0$90266$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> There are some high end customers that may not be happy to leave
>> Solaris.
>>
>> Just as there are similar that are not happy to leave VMS.
> 
>    As have been discussed here in c.o.v many times over the years, many
>    of us use VMS for things UNIX just can't do.

I think it has been demonstrated in the industry that Unix and Windows
can do those things. Some things maybe not quite as well. But apparently
well enough to that it is not considered a problem.

>                                                    We recognise that for
>    the vast majority of the market that consideration is null (i.e. UNIX
>    and VMS can both do all the things they need), or reversed (i.e. a
>    product exists that only runs on UNIX).
> 
>    What in the world can Solaris do that Linux just can't do?

Practically nothing.

Linux is doing the same to the commercial Unixes as the commercial
Unixes did to VMS (and other non-Unix OS'es) 15-20 years ago.

Arne