[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

> >> 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.  

I said "one reason", namely the one which I experienced.  There could 
have been others.

> DEC/COMPAQ/HP never tried to push Tru64/Ultrix
> > or anything else into the VMS space.  

Ring up HP, ask them about buying a VMS system, they sugggest unix.  
Yes, it happened.  Visited the DEC stand at a major trade fair, asked 
about purchasing VMS, was told that unix is the future.  (In the latter 
case, I whined about it here in c.o.v, and a few days later someone from 
DEC actually rang me up and apologized.  Too little, too late, though.)

> > People forget that no
> > one buys a system because of the OS.  

Many people do...

> > It's the applications
> > that sell systems.  

...namely people who write their own applications.  They need an OS and 
a compiler, that's it.  Even if you see a compiler as an application, 
DEC had the best and this was a reason some people acutally moved TO VMS 
back in the day.