[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/14/2018 9:21 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/13/18 10:44 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/13/2018 10:18 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> Wishful thinking.  The machines used in University level courses do
>>> not jump around from one OS to another at the whim of some professor.
>>> I had boxes running Windows, boxes running Linux, boxes running BSD
>>> and sometimes boxes running more obscure OSes for special projects.
>>
>> That may have been the way of thinking for 10-20-30 years ago.
>>
>> Today both teachers and students can spin up as many VM's as they want
>> on their own laptops.
> 
> Can, yes, but they have no desire to play with anything.  They
> use what is required for their coursework and that is both
> students and professors.

For some yes.

But there are other that do get involved in stuff.

They contribute to open source.

They participate on SO.

They play with stuff - old OS'es, new programming languages,
web frameworks, all sorts of stuff.

Will all of them be interested in VMS. No way.

But if there is 500000 in that category, then just getting 2%
interested would be 10000.

Arne