[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-12-02 10:24, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:
> 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?

Why are you making the assumption that 1 paying customer == 1 running 
system?

	Johnny

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