[Info-vax] HP Integrity rx2800 i4 (2.53GHz/32.0MB) :: PAKs won't load

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On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:54:00 +0000
Kerry Main via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> The competition in the future and has been for the last 10+ years is not 
> Solaris, AIX, z/OS etc, (DEC/Compaq/HP market positioning) but rather 
> commodity OS's like Linux/Windows. This is especially true when VMS is
> being sold on the same server X86-64 architecture as Windows/Linux.

This is what I have been saying. Everybody may as well turn out the lights
and go home. Nobody is going to pay $$$$$ for VMS when they can get nothing
and like it with Linux.

> > We are no longer in the era of servers as pets.   OpenVMS and any other
> > server needs to operate as livestock.  In herds.

Hoffman may be the world's biggest pessimist and insider VMS-basher but he
sure has a way with words!