[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/14/18 2:22 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <puurhg$5bi$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> 
>> What would change here that would encourage universities, schools and
>> trade schools to adopt OpenVMS?  This given that free educational
>> licenses have been available for ~twenty years. There does seem more
>> involved here than offering free software licenses.
> 
> It needs the owner of VMS to support VMS.  One reason universities
> dropped VMS is because DEC told them to.  I know; I was there.
> 

Not really.  DEC/COMPAQ/HP never tried to push Tru64/Ultrix
or anything else into the VMS space.  People forget that no
one buys a system because of the OS.  It's the applications
that sell systems.  And when the applications are better on
other systems the other systems win.  We moved from in house
systems to BANNER.  BANNER is the  one who dropped VMS.  The
University had no choice but to follow.  The move was driven
totally by the application.  And that is the reality of it.
What major use applications are still available on VMS?
SPSS? Minitab? SCT Banner? Intersystems Cache?

bill