[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

ChrisQ wrote:
> Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article <0036b65c$0$30964$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei 
>> <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>>> When Sun changed the pricing to Solaris (to $0), did that greatly reduce
>>> the TCO of Solaris/Sparc solutions, or did it just shift costs to
>>> support and TCO remains 10 times higher than for Linux ?
>>
>>    Initial cost of ownership for Sun is still higher than Linux.  A lot
>>    of folks are in charge of project development and will look only at
>>    development cost and not TCO.
> 
> Please elaborate - it may have been true in the days when Sun charged 
> for Solaris, but now that it's open source, the only thing remaining is 
<snip>
> To get back on topic, I can't think of any reason at all why oracle 
> would want to buy vms. Hardly any modern software runs on it anymore, no 
> one knows how to admin it and it only runs on one current architecture. 
> As for security, the rest of the world has probably caught up.
> 

I still know how to admin it!  There are still a few old fossils like me 
who also still know how!