[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/14/2021 3:57 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 9/14/2021 8:19 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 9/14/2021 12:39 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> In article <shopcl$b49$2 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
>>> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>> A single Itanium got lots of power.
>>>
>>> Sure, but what are big VMS customers doing today?
>>
>> Most likely running the same applications they did 30 years ago.
> 
> If someone has been running an application for 30 years, then it is 
> probably very important to them.

Yes.

My point was that even though the company may have doubled or tripled
customers and they may have doubled or tripled historic data, then one
new system that are several orders of magnitudes faster can most likely
do what required a cluster many years ago.

>>>> Half??
>>>>
>>>> I would be surprised if it was >5%.
>>>
>>> Probably all of use are familiar with some part of the VMS market and
>>> none of us has an overview.
>>
>> True.
>>
>> But cluster pricing/setup/monitoring/programming questions
>> appears rather rare both here and other places.
> 
> Most likely users of VMS clusters have more knowledge than they could 
> find here.

I don't see why they should be asking fewer questions than non-cluster
users.

> Cluster pricing and marketing has been a great failing of DEC, Compaq, 
> HP, and we await to discover how VSI will do so.

I suspect that they may price it pretty high.

The general trend in software seems to be that base/standard
becomes very low cost but that the extended/enterprise features
stays rather expensive.

Arne