[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Neil Rieck]

>
> has some numbers: SW sale is 600 M$ out of 12.4 B$ total sale.
>
> You do not pay 7.4 B$ to acquire 600 M$ in annual sale. They
> want the server business.
>
> And besides MySQL does not compete that much with Oracle DB.
> Different segments.
>
> Arne

This makes sense. On a related point, last year I remember seeing an
Oracle marketing campaign where they were selling complete servers
with Oracle pre-installed.  So if they want then server business, then
why wouldn't they want a server OS like OpenVMS? On top of this,
purchasing/supporting OpenVMS would keep their RDB business alive.

NSR