[Info-vax] What do HP's planned changes mean for VMS?

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <4E53A1A3.40705 at kittles.com>, Thomas Wirt <twnews at kittles.com> writes:
> 
> While your prediction may be correct, last I knew VMS still made good 
> money for HP.  I don't think there is any pouring money into VMS.  If 
> anything, VMS pours money into the rest of HP.  While I must admit that 
> my info is 2 or 3 years old, I doubt that it has changed much since then.

I would very much doubt that this is true at all.
Do you have some hard, publicly accessible information source 
backing this claim?
BCS, to which VMS belongs, has revenues around $2B (maybe $4B a few years ago),
with a profit margin of 10% at best.
Mostly, but not all of it on account of Itanic systems, of which the vast
majority (probably >90%) run HP-UX. This doesn't leave much room
for VMS to "pour" anything. A few droplets in an ink ocean, maybe.