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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/6/2022 11:08 AM, kemain.nospam at gmail.com wrote:
> While the last 15-20 years was about reducing HW costs, imho, the next 15-20
> years will be about reducing SW costs.
> 
> Hence, the very high costs for traditional products like VMware, Oracle, MS
> SQL etc. are now under strategic reviews by many large companies.

 > One previous DC migration engagement I did about 4 years back involved a
 > large Cust who had a traditional Oracle DB/middleware environment (on 
Oracle
 > Solaris btw) for their mission critical environment. While our engagement
 > was restricted to transition, not transformation, we did learn that their
 > next gen platform they were developing on was alternate Linux/much 
cheaper
 > DB/middleware products.

 > For those not familiar with Oracle, their DB core licensing is likely the
 > most expensive in the IT industry. List pricing (ok, few pay list 
prices and
 > have varying degrees of discounts) is $47K per server core.

PostgreSQL and MySQL are definitely doing well in the database market
(against Oracle DB and MS SQLServer).

And Spring Boot and Quarkus are similar doing well in the Java
application market (against IBM WebSphere AS and Oracle WebLogic).

And if one is not into Java then PHP, node, Django etc. are
also low cost solutions.

> I also think the traditional model of requiring a different server for each
> business application and/or multiple tiers is going to change as well, but
> that is a different discussion.

That is happening with the introduction of containers.

> My point is that just because a product is well established today, like all
> past changes in the IT industry, it does not mean their market position is
> not going to change in the future.

It most likely will change.

It has changed from decade to decade in the past. It seems highly
likely that it will continue to do so in the future.

Arne