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

[JF Mezei]

On 14-09-04 23:04, David Froble wrote:

> Don't know why anyone is worrying about dates.  IA-64 will be around 
> more than long enough.

But you aren't going to get any new customers for VMS until it is on
x86.  It is silly for a shop to decide to move to VMS now. It is an
antique abandonned operating system (with hope of revival) on a dead
hardware platform.

Until VMS is on x86 and we see a roadmap with faster pace of development
once the engineers are unleashed, it will not be a marketable product
outside the installed base.

No new customer = much harder business case for VSI.


You should also consider whether the VSI team will have the resources to
start to add new features to VMS to make it more marketable right away,
or whether they will only start this once the port to x86 is done. In
that case, porting to x86 becomes an even greater priority.