[Info-vax] Rdb/x86

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-11-25, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <rplo4b$vub$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
><clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 
>
>> As part of that decision, they will want to see that x86-64 VMS has,
>> or will shortly have, a critical mass of other people using the same
>> platform in order to make that platform viable. To that manager, it
>> doesn't matter what products those other people are using; it only
>> matters that enough people are going to be using VMS on x86-64 to make
>> it a relatively safe decision for that manager to also take.
>
> The announcement that Rdb is available for x86-VMS tells the manager 
> nothing about whether enough people will be using VMS on x86-64 to make 
> it a relatively safe decision for that manager to also take.
>

You _still_ don't get it Phillip.

It tells the manager that a major vendor has committed to x86-64 VMS
and that in itself helps give a increased level of confidence. Unlike you,
the people making these decisions are not VMS zealots. They want to make
a safe decision that's less likely to cost them their company pension or
end up giving them a nice free pink slip or P45.

A Rdb announcement should have been a major announcement in what should
have been an ongoing stream of announcements by VSI marketing, all of
which had the combined purpose of projecting a positive, and viable,
long-term future for x86-64 VMS.

There's a reason why DEC spent the time maintaining the old application
source books. This stuff matters. Big time.

How many potential x86-64 VMS customers have VSI lost over the last
2-3 years because of the lack of marketing ?

>
> Any manager who would base his decision on whether Rdb was on x86 VMS 
> already knows that Rdb will run on x86 VMS.
>

That information only became available in public very recently and is
still not on the VSI website that I can see.

Simon.

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