[Info-vax] Out with Hurd, in with OpenVMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <i4monp$jeq$2 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> 
> I think what hurt DEC the most was the move to unix, which was mainly 
> down to DEC not marketing VMS strongly enough, in particularly not 
> taking steps to stop the move away from VMS in academia.  Of course, 
> academia itself doesn't make a profit, but most people don't stay in 
> academia and later decide what to buy.

   The move to UNIX came at great pain when UNIX was running on RISC,
   making VMS on VAX not price/performance competitive.  The move
   from VAX to Alpha came after all those customers underwent all that
   pain, and did not give them reason to go back to VMS.

   I knew a lot of people who crunched numbers, and notes when the
   VAX 9000 came out at about $1,000,000 it was performance competitive
   with $40,000 RISC workstations.