[Info-vax] The real problem that needs solving to grow VMS

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <fb81acb0-3fd2-497d-8dbc-bae32b5847a1n at googlegroups.com>,
David Goodwin <dgsoftnz at gmail.com> writes: 

> Even if the software was available on OpenVMS, why would you
> choose it over Linux? Why subject your business to the high licensing
> costs, yearly license renewals, and difficulty of finding skilled staff?
> All to run software that was probably ported from Linux anyway? What
> is the actual selling point of OpenVMS to potential customers?
> 
> And probably the reason why there is no software for OpenVMS is that
> it's too obscure, almost certainly because of it's licensing situation. 
> Until
> its cheap and easy to license like its competitors, I don't really see it
> having any chance.

Running main software ported from Linux makes little sense.  (On the 
other hands, utilities and so on from the open-source world would; most 
are compile-and-go on VMS already anyway.)  The selling point is what it 
always has been: clustering, DLM, HBVS, and so on.