[Info-vax] Rdb question

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-07-29, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 7/29/2022 3:05 AM, Richard Maher wrote:
>>
>> VGI should have sold their mother to get Oracle continued on VMS!!! :-(
>>
>> For those of us still dreaming; that my friends, was the death knell.
>
> I partly understand, but, I still have to ask, why when there is a personal 
> "death knell", that person then extends it to everyone else?
>

Because while you might be comfy in your own little world, you only get
to play in that world because there's enough people doing other things
that makes it profitable enough for VSI to continue making software for
you to play with.

> Yeah, one can go on and on about some nice product/feature, but that does not 
> mean that everyone uses it.
>

Losing enough major third-party applications can be the difference
between a port to x86-64 being viable and not being viable.

Simon.

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