[Info-vax] How about RdB for x86 VMS?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2014-09-04 11:15:10 +0000, Dirk Munk said:

> I don't expect Oracle to make commitments right now, that is not 
> possible. But a simple statement like "We are following the recent 
> developments on future versions of VMS with great interest" is much 
> better than saying nothing at all.


VSI has a big customer event coming up soon?   What is the arguably 
biggest customer event of the entire VSI corporate history?

Expect to see VSI save many of the VSI-related announcements and new 
features and details and many of the VSI third-party partner 
statements, and make them all at once.

That's basic marketing, after all.   Make the biggest splash you can, 
and show the widest support you can, have some third-party speakers, 
and put as many partner logos as you can onto the slideware.  Y'all did 
want VMS marketing, right?

If a VMS customer and potential VSI customer — VSI has no products yet, 
after all — doesn't have a sufficient and critical mass of general 
statements and of roadmaps and support plans and swag available after 
the boot camp, then either have a face-to-face meeting with VSI folks 
at the boot camp, or call VSI or the third-party vendor directly after 
the event and ask (for more swag, of course).

Are there questions?  Sure.  Concerns?  Definitely.  Want answers?  
Stop fscking around in comp.os.vms and contact VSI or the third-party 
vendor directly.

Or wait a few weeks and wade through the  press releases that'll become 
available during and after the boot camp, and then call with remaining 
questions and concerns.

That written, I would expect to see some general third-party statements 
around support for the VSI x86-64 port circa 2018 (IIRC) and relatively 
fewer specific commitments.  Not this far ahead of the port, and before 
VSI has any products shipping.

With what I've seen of enterprise customers and of the larger 
third-party layered product providers, y'all do adore these plans and 
maps and support statements, but most end-users will want to see and 
feel and touch the release and the hardware (circa 2018) before you 
really commit to a port.   Because your environment is special and 
different, as are most bespoke computing environments.

Now if a VMS customer doesn't have a runway here that allows them to 
wait that long and isn't satisfied with calling VSI or the vendor, then 
those customers should get back to work on a port.



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