[Info-vax] BASIC compiler in the hobbyist distribution

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <4aa5b41d-e28c-4f7b-8674-8b304e1c4dea at googlegroups.com>,
	seasoned_geek <roland at logikalsolutions.com> writes:
> On Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 1:50:52 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> That was my point.  Is Solaris even relevant in today's IT world?
>> If I were VSI I would not waste time trying to determine how to
>> "compete" with Solaris.  And AIX while still doing OK is really a
>> very niche product and probably not really a competitor anymore.
>> 
> Actually worth it, more so than chasing the "free" market at this point. The people in those particular niches, particularly AIX and AS/400, have real business needs and have been able to justify spending of significant cash to service those needs.
> The "free" market has a habit of not paying anyone. I mean they think it is ok to have servers which have 4 hour outages each year, so, how is one going to sell them something which runs 24x7 for decades without down time?
> A much easier sell to tell the AIX and AS/400 crowd, hey, your boxes were supposed to kill the VAX, it is still here. We have 24x7 up-time measured in decades with ongoing development and you're looking at End Of Life for your current platform, here is how you port...

More drivel.  I run more than a dozen BSD Servers here.  The only time
they go down is when I shut them down (which is  not very often and
was a total of zero hours down during the 2 years I wasn't here!).
Whne this place was a VMS shop for all it's administration the VMS
systems were unavailable for 6 hours every weekend and along with
whatever else they were doing they were rebooted.  Every weekend.
Was it necessary?  Can't say as that wasn't my domain.  But the guy
managing them was a long time VMS expert that many people here knew.
He seemed to think it was necessary.

bill


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