[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[JF Mezei]

On 13-12-03 21:24, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:

> Rather agreeing to sell VMS to a consortium composed of the remaining
> 2000 paying customers, to preserve HPs reputation that they give a damn
> about their business customers.


What is left to sell ?

There is no engineering group. The value of VMS (or any OS) lies in the
brains that have enough knowledge/experience to avoid pitfalls such as
buffer overruns, create proper documentation etc. It is all gone.

And apart from restructuring teh source code to allow multi platform and
ease porting, there hasn't been much development in VMS for about 15 years.

Also, remember that Digital donated much of the IP to Microsoft in
exchange for the right to sell Windows.  HP ditched attekps to port the
clustering stuff to HP-UX.

At this point in time, I would say that VMS has $0 residual value in
terms of the OS itself. (support business might have some),

VMS is an antique OS that has been stagnant for many many years. Along
the likes of Tru64, MPE, Data General's AOS/VS etc.