[Info-vax] Users of OpenVMS

[David Froble]

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
> 
> 

I'm thinking that the proper question is how many itanics were sold with 
VMS?  HP should know.  I'd think VSI asked that question.