[Info-vax] VMS dying?

[David Froble]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
> 

Ah, hmm, umm, I know!

VSI is going to take over AIX?

Good guess?

:-)