[Info-vax] vax vms licenses

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/22/2022 3:31 PM, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <t3uplg$9o9$2 at dont-email.me>,
> clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) wrote:
>> I keep wondering if VSI has gone for a policy of short-term income
>> at the expense of damaging long-term income and I hope that isn't
>> the case.
> 
> I suspect they need to become profitable fairly quickly, or risk their
> backers pulling the plug.

Based on available info they are profitable already.

>> VSI appears to be relying on the remaining VMS user base being a
>> captive userbase that can't easily move away, but that only works
>> if being a captive user doesn't become too painful or too risky
>> for the user.
> 
> They are not in a position to grow the user base quickly, are they?

The natural order of events for VSI must be:
1) get VMS x86-64 completed
2) get existing customers migrated to VMS x86-64
3) modernize VMS
4) get new customers

> Thinking about that, it would seem to require some new kind of
> application software that works uniquely well on VMS, presumably because
> of some VMS feature that is hard to port to Linux or Windows. The current
> VMS user community doesn't seem likely to invent such a thing, nor do VSI
> staff, because they're all very experienced with the current ways of
> doing things.

Not so sure.

Today unique features important enough to drive application
migration are rare in the OS world.

And most don't even want their new applications to be
OS specific.

Arne