[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/16/2012 4:15 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> JF Mezei wrote 2012-05-16 09:53:
>  > You need to make a policy decision of whether you are to go for open
>  > sourced OS (less likely to be killed by the whims of one or more CEOs)
>
> But more likely to be killed by the community. There are currently some
> (some says big) problems with support/development of some former active
> OSS stuff now when "everyone" jump on the app train.
>
> The mantra saying that "you can support it yourself" or "just hire someone"
> just isn't good enought for a professional business. That is, a business
> that is not an IT-business itself (Google, Facebook...)

There are tens of thousands of open source projects dying every year
because the volunteers drop out of the project.

But since the open source project in question seems to be Linux
then the argument does not really apply.

Arne