[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[Subcommandante XDelta]

Michael Kraemer:
> Subcommandante XDelta schrieb:
> 
>> Mr Mezel, in a recent conversation thread, estimated, IIRC (senior
>> moments notwithstanding), that the remaining VMS end-user population
>> might be circa 100,000 shops.
> 
> that's - maybe - the number of *systems* still standing around somewhere.
> The number of *customers* was estimated by HP to be 2000 round-about,
> Iirc this figure was quoted here a couple of months ago.
> Paying customers, that is, and these are the only important ones,
> from HP's point of view.
> The latter figure also is in better agreement
> with the estimated $30M of revenue VMS creates.
> $15000/a per customer on average seems
> more likely than just $300/a (or are support contracts
> that cheap these days?)

Thank you Michael.

It would be good to have this all disambiguated again and confirmed, for
the sake of strategic discourse (redux).

If there are, putatively, "98,000" systems still running, that are not
current paying customers of HP, how are they running? -As commercial
policy did DEC, CPQ and HP sell non-terminating, immortal, licence PAKS?