[Info-vax] Rdb question

[Dave Froble]

On 7/29/2022 1:40 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

Just as Richard has done, you're making assumptions Simon.  Now, if you had any 
facts, numbers, and such to support your statement ...

>> 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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