[Info-vax] OpenVMS in the future, Open sourced or Closed? Intent is to keep it...

[seasoned_geek]

On Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 2:05:22 AM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <d190e3c9-4336-4f74-b958-c1df6354c4fb at googlegroups.com>,
> seasoned_geek  writes: 
> 
> > When you are OpenSource, you cannot be trusted. That means you cannot be
> > used to run critical systems for the NSA and other "alphabet soup"
> > agencies. They don't have the luxury of loading something as soft as
> > Windows or Linux 
> 
> I Red-Hat guy told me once that their largest customer was the U.S. 
> department of defense.

"largest customer" != in use on critical systems

That is a massive organization with a huge number of non-critical systems, like payroll, accounts payable, etc. Each branch has their own for various reasons.

Has anyone found a link with some kind of real numbers for RedHat? I mean, now that Oracle has issued their own flavor of RH and was claiming to be one of the largest support services providers of RH for years before that...how can anyone reliably determine the actual number of RH "customers"

Better question, what constitutes a RH "customer"? Someone that downloads for free and uses once in a while? Only those with a paid support contract?

If they have 100 paying support contracts and 50 of them are the Department of Defence should anyone be impressed?