[Info-vax] Itanic is a dead end : IBM

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <4de44ac9$0$31217$c3e8da3$b280bf18 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei
<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 
> > Supply and demand, I'd say.
> 
> Remember when Compaq decided there was no demand for VMS 8.* for VAX (as
> had been promised) and never delivered it ?
> 
> I have heard through the grapevine that this was not true. There was demand.

how much?
A couple of hobbyists and nostalgics is equivalent to "no demand".
Now if the owners of the 411000 systems would have stood up
as one man and demanded "VMS on VAX forever", *that* would have made
a difference.  


> 
> So one must take the "there is no demand for" with a grain of salt when
> it comes from HP.
> 
> Perhaps there is truly no demand for new version of Fortran. But if
> there were truly no demand, how come fortran compilers on other
> platforms are getting upgrades towards the new standards ?

Perhaps these other platforms are more attractive for 
the remaining Fortran users?