[Info-vax] FWIW: HP to spin off PSG?

[Michael Kraemer]

Richard B. Gilbert schrieb:
> On 8/22/2011 2:29 AM, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 
>> Richard B. Gilbert schrieb:
>>
>>>
>>> Especially not when you can get an O/S for FREE. It's not VMS but
>>> Linux works, and offers the customary functions and services.
>>
>>
>> Linux wasn't really usable before the end of the 1990s.
>> VMS OTOH lost the race already at the beginning of that decade.
>> One could even fix a date: on 11 January 1989,
>> the day the DECstation 3100 was introduced,
>> DEC themselves admitted that Unix is no longer
>> a russian truck but would be the future.
>>
>>> The last time I looked at license prices for an Alphaserver 4100 a VMS
>>> license was something like $20K. Now add Oracle!
>>
>>
>> Oracle for Linux is free?
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>>
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> I doubt that Oracle for Linux is free! 

Agreed, and therefore the fact that Linux is free,
while VMS isn't, might not be very relevant.
What's the cost of an Oracle/linux license vs Oracle/VMS?

> Oracle is what people use when
> they need the best. 

I disagree. People use Oracle because everybody else
seems to use it. Doesn't mean it's "the best".