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

[Dave Froble]

On 11/1/2022 8:29 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.
>

Wrong.  See my recent post.

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