[Info-vax] VMS on a PC

[JF Mezei]

johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:

> So would VMS on Proliant be a net loser for HP (because they lose the
> margin which they currently get by selling HP-specific hardware at HP-
> specific prices) or a net winner (because a segment of the market
> which they can't currently profitably address, the "no Itanium here"
> segment, becomes addressable once VMS runs on Proliant)?

I think that the argument that would sway HP is that continued support
of VMS would cost less. That is what HP seems to be looking for. A low
volume VMS at the end of its days would not require special hardware and
run on whatever 8086 HP could produce.

And as new 8086s come along, they are perhaps less likely to require VMS
updates to allow VMS to run on it which means that they will be able to
further lower costs for maintaining VMS.