[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[Subcommandante XDelta]

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

It was an RFC ruse to ferret out a better model. :<D