[Info-vax] Building for Customers, Revenue

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2014-09-13 20:19:54 +0000, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk said:

> Im the generic case in present times that sounds rather more like the 
> territory of something like SAP's shop floor interfaces, or maybe 
> something like Cincom's MRP package. Etc.

VSI is a provider of operating systems and not ones particularly in in 
the shop floor market (any more), unless VSI is going to go vertical 
with some of their product offerings, and/or unless VSI also got and 
wants to port and to invest in BASEstar...   As they're just getting 
going, Poulson and then x86-64 are undoubtedly going to be the primary 
VSI projects, and probably some work on other core projects and 
products, too.

In general, VSI must provide a platform that's more profitable for a 
third-party vendor or integrator to use — easier to use and/or cheaper 
to buy and/or cheaper to maintain and/or faster and/or more economical, 
etc — and allowing the third-party vendors and — where they're still 
doing their own technical work — the end-users to build and benefit and 
to profit.  VSI has to make the case that VMS is better and more 
valuable and more profitable than Linux, BSD, Windows Embedded or 
whatever the third-party vendors are presently using, and better by 
enough to warrant the effort involved in porting.

After the Boot Camp, we'll have a much better idea of where VSI is 
investing for the next several years.  Right now, they probably want 
and need to get Poulson and x86-64 out the door.


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