[Info-vax] VMS Software Releases Roadmap Updates

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/28/2021 4:41 AM, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <sitp1a$1jai$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
> wrote:
>> On 9/27/2021 8:24 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> And what is the likelihood that a potential new customer would buy
>>> an Itanium just to be able to use an x86/64?
>>
>> None.
>>
>> But this is clearly for existing VMS customers.
> 
> It's a bit worse than that. Potential new VMS customers may well be
> seriously put off by hearing of the idea that you need an Itanium to do
> development, even if this is a short-lived thing. The view of Itanium in
> the IT industry is most commonly "What's that?", followed by "Wasn't that
> a massive failure 20 years ago?" and "That cost us a fortune, we're not
> going back there!"

Yes.

But I don't think potential new VMS customers are
looking at VMS yet.

9.2 will likely be all existing VMS customers.

We can hope that 9.3 / 9.4 / 10.0 will see some
new customers.

Arne