[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Arne Vajhøj]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <49ee75b0$0$90263$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
> 	Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> The move to Linux are not driven by low support cost but by:
>> - cheap HW (x86-64)
>> - cheap SW
>> - lots of software available
>> - lots of people with Linux skills available
> 
> Don't forget hype.

That also counts for some.

>                    Because there are other much better options for which
> all of those apply, except maybe the last one.

The only OS that has more software available than Linux is
Windows.

>                                                 But then, the actual value
> of those "people with Linux skills" is very dubious.

Those "people" covers the majority of all computer science, electrical
engineering, software engineering people.

Arne