[Info-vax] VMS dying?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <1e3588f4-fda9-46e4-8b35-9f3492272c02 at googlegroups.com>,
	mcleanjoh at gmail.com writes:
> On Thursday, September 25, 2014 4:20:03 AM UTC+10, JF Mezei wrote:
> 
>> **IF** HP has a plan on exactly what unique features of HP-UX they want
>> to port to Linux, then they would likely wait until those features are
>> ready to ship so that when they make formal EOL announcement of HP-UX,
>> they can point to customer able to benefit from same features on Linux.
> 
> Why would anyone buy HP-UX when they can get Linux, in some form or other, free?

Because there are things that run on HP-UX that don't run on Linux.

> 
> Isn't IBM backing away from AIX, probably because there's little money to be made in it?
> 

Not that I have seen.  People here used to say government contracts were
going to keep VMS alive forever.  Well, the government uses a lot of AIX.
A lot more than it ever did VMS.  Based on the original premise held here,
you draw the conclusion.

bill

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