[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[John Smith (not the one @ HP)]

"Neil Rieck" <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> wrote in message 
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> >
>> 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.


Too much effort for too little return.

Unix/linux is perceived as 'good enough' by lots of people - including those 
who really ought to know better. But these same people also know that using 
LAMP means they they get to remain employed vs. trying to champion something 
called VMS & Rdb, so that's why they use LAMP, even if it might ultimately 
cost more to do so.