[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Dave Froble]

On 8/4/2021 3:44 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.

Now that is just plain wrong.  VMS is VMS, regardless if running in a VM 
instance, or not.  Actually, VM instances will be better for porting 
work.  One doesn't need a production level computer to do porting work.

>>> 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.)
>


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