[Info-vax] Users of OpenVMS

[Jerry Eckert]

On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 8:28:06 PM UTC-6, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/30/2015 8:52 PM, johnson.eric at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 7:42:12 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> >
> >> I am pretty sure that there was only a few hundred thousands VMS sites
> >> back in the VMS peak late 80's. And I would expect a pretty big portion
> >> of those to have migrated off since then.
> >>
> >> Something in the 10000 magnitude sounds more realistic.
> >
> > According to HP, their count of paying customers was around 2500.
> >
> > http://www.computerworld.com/article/2497657/operating-systems/openvms--r-i-p--1977-2020-.html
> >
> > Of course that number is a bone of contention around these parts as
> > some point out that fails to account for the sites that are front ended
> > through resellers.
> 
> There must certainly be a number of VMS customers without a
> service contract with HP.
> 
> But if we say that 50% have a contract with HP, then it only
> makes it 5000 sites. Still very few.
> 
> Arne

If the sites I have had contact with in the last three years are an accurate sample, the number is much closer to 5% (if that high) than to 50%.