[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <529d9189$0$3479$c3e8da3$2bd0d6bf at news.astraweb.com>,
Subcommandante XDelta <vlf at star.enet.dec.com> writes: 

> >> 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?)
> 
> Going with those figures - 100,000 VMS shops; but only 2000 paying
> customers, for the sake of argument.

No-one said 100,000 SHOPS, but rather 100,000 SYSTEMS.  Suppose a paying 
customer has 50 systems (seems like a good average to me), then the 
numbers are compatible.