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

[seasoned_geek]

On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 12:20:45 PM UTC-5, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <1d5da2d1-2336-456b-8111-02d598b29acb at googlegroups.com>, seasoned_geek writes:
> > 
> > Why will VMS have a life span of 15 minutes once ported to the x86? Because=
> >  absolutely NOTHING is respected on the x86. Period.
> 
>    Not one of your arguments has anything to do with the platform, they
>    all have to do with the software.

The have to do with the platform. Do a Web search for how many blades Amazon, Google, and the other major server farms fry in a day.


> 
>    We've run some less popular OS on x86 and found some of them are
>    respectable.  You haven't heard about it, of course.

If those OS's actually had respect, I would have heard about them.