[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Arne Vajhøj]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> JF Mezei schrieb:
> 
>>
>> Curly had already tried to kill VMS the year before, but was convinced
>> by Marcello to not only suspend those plans (because Compaq desperatly
>> needed the revenus generated by VMS) but was also given a modest
>> marketing budget (which lead to the few months of "VMS renaissance" with
>> early 10% growth in sales. 
> 
> I find this hypothetical correlation between marketing budget
> and increased VMS sales hard to believe.
> The "typical" (as I'm told here all day long) VMS customer would
> think long term rather than being influenced by a short term
> ad campaign.
> Or can you really imagine a stock exchange's CIO saying
> "hey, I've seen some cool VMS ads last night,
> let's buy a couple of those boxes"
> ?

No.

But maybe:

tech guy - we want to use VMS
manager - but VMS is dead
tech guy - no, see this add for VMS
manager - oh

Arne