[Info-vax] OT: Elephants Can't Dance

[Arne Vajhøj]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Steven Schweda wrote:
>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>> [...]  It
>>> may take years to see how this is going to work out, or not.  The Sun
>>> model makes at least as much sense, to me, as any of the others!
>>
>>    How many years do you need?  It's been free since at least
>> mid-2004 (when I apparently downloaded "Solaris 9 4/04
>> Operating System"), and it was what before that, $75 for a CD
>> kit?  (Since about 2000?)  Last time I checked, Sun was still
>> in business.
> 
> Are they making money?  Are they getting an adequate return on 
> investment?  Are people, in fact, developing more software to run under 
> Solaris, SPARC and/or X86?

Solaris(T) = VMS(T-12 year)

http://www.sun.com/software/linux/compatibility/lxrun/

s/Solaris/OpenVMS/w
s/Linux/Unix/w
s/lxrun/Posix/w

:-)

And it will continue following VMS.

Arne