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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <3176a8dd-73a5-4ecd-aac4-b0edbeef01b4 at googlegroups.com>, seasoned_geek <roland at logikalsolutions.com> writes:
> 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.

   Irrelevant.  I've had many VAXen and fried a couple.  They've got
   thousands of blades and fried a few.  SOunds like the same statistics
   to me.

> 
> 
>> 
>>    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.

   Who died and left you the omnicient one?