[Info-vax] open source OpenVMS (Re: Oracle-RDB seminar notes)

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <nospam-7842A1.20381430032013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
<nospam at sture.ch> writes: 

> > > For those who are buying Itanium systems...beats me.  I would venture
> > > to guess that these users are ones who have a ton of in-house code that
> > > is not cost-effective to port to other OSes.  They might be candidates
> > > for a new OS, but they're likely to be very conservative and want to
> > > wait a while until after this new OS has proven itself. 
> > 
> > Also there are those who like the reliability of VMS but need more power
> > than ALPHA, so buy new Itanium.  Of course, there can be overlap between
> > these two groups.
> 
> You don't have to answer this if you don't wish to,  but has your 
> employer moved to Itanium and if so was that to do with maintenance 
> costs or processing power, or a mixture of the two?

Well, my boss features in an article somewhere on the HP website, so 
it's no secret.  We moved to Itanium years ago.  Demands (i.e. customer 
wants fast results) continue to increase, and Itanium gives more power 
with lower costs (power, maintenance, maybe licenses though I suspect 
the last is a small cost compared to support costs) with a more-or-less 
compile-and-go port (i.e. still use VMS).