[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <sed01d$apv$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> >> I don't look at this forum for a few months and first time I do I get
> >> severely misquoted!  What I say, and continue to say, is exactly what
> >> customers keep telling us, "don't be different". They run everything on
> >> VMware, VMS needs to be there, too. They run everything on Hyper-V, VMS
> >> needs to be there, too. Seems very straightforward to us. IT people
> >> constantly tell us whatever we can do to "fit in operationally", helps
> >> to make the case for staying with VMS.
> >
> > Current customers presumably.  There are probably folks waiting in the
> > wings, maybe until VMS runs on bare-metal x86, before they consider
> > whether to port.
> 
> VSI has said this will happen.  

Right.

> So why would anyone wait?  For today, 
> VMS on x86 is the future.

Right.  But if people want to port their application to bare-metal x86, 
few if any will start before that bare-metal x86 is available.

> > In other words, current customers might not be
> > representative of all potential VSI customers.
> 
> What's your point?

See above.

> Current customers are all VMS has now and in the near future.

No.  In the near future, bare-metal customers could become important.  
Why would any of those be a VSI customer today?  At most to move to VSI 
VMS on Alpha or Itanium, but that could wait until bare-metal x86 is 
ready.

> The majority of potential customers are most likely already using VMs.

I don't know.  There are some big VMS shops not using VMs.  (But I don't 
know how many of those will go to x86.)