[Info-vax] Ann's "Toxic Customers"

[Arne Vajhøj]

Richard Maher wrote:
> "Arne Vajhøj" <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote in message
> news:49c6da94$0$90276$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk...
>> Neil Rieck wrote:
>>> Needless to say our databases are still based upon RMS but I'm sure
>>> we'll get there some day. Oracle-RDB is the Cadillac solution. (if
>>> OpenVMS is ever ported to x86-64 then I'm sure this technology
>>> (OpenVMS-RDB) would attain critical mass)
>> I doubt that.
>>
>> I don't think the price difference Itanium - x86-64 and uncertainty
>> about Itanium are the only reasons holding back VMS.
>>
>> The market wants Linux.
> 
> Maybe there's only one Stall set out in Arne's market (or only one Stock),
> but where I come from there are one or two people in the fruit & veg section
> that are paying handsomely for Windows .NET and SQL Server. Must be it's an
> Australian thing? I guess it just depends which barrow the barrow-boy of the
> day is pushing I suppose. (What's the percentage of IIS or SQL Server or
> .NET you imagine on Windows as opposed to the "free" Apache or MySQL or
> WAMP?)

The IIS - Apache ratio can be seen at NetCraft.

The market is big and diversified but the net migration is to Linux.

Arne