[Info-vax] Final Oracle release on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/28/2020 7:42 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 10/28/2020 7:29 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> No, it doesn't. WASD is "just" a third part open source "thing" that
>> doesn't generate any income for VSI or anyone else. Not much to
>> shout about.
> 
> I don't think I agree with that.  According to Mark, the port was rather 
> simple.  For VSI, being able to show users who had an easy time of 
> porting would be a good thing.  The profitability of the specific 
> product really isn't important, in this context.

We need to distinguish between communicating to the technical
people and communicating to the decision making people.

For the technical people wondering how they get their
Alpha/Itanium application running on x86-64 then
all porting stories are relevant no matter the
products importance.

But it is different for the decision making people.
Some companies have application tied to Rdb, so
they need Rdb, so they buy a VMS system that Rdb can
run on. Rdb availability translates to VMS sales.
My guess is that there are nobody that buys a VMS
system because they want to run WASD. They need
a VMS system for some reason (Rdb or otherwise)
and they need a web server on what they are running
(VMS) and they pick WASD as a feature rich
and very VMSish web server.

Arne