[Info-vax] Off-Topic: UNISYS problems

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/10/2022 7:10 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> Longstanding Unisys users are unlikely to port to VSI OpenVMS, given the 
> longstanding path from UNIVAC and EXEC-8 and follow-ons including 
> ClearPath Dorado to the newer ClearPath IX and x86-64, and—if not 
> following the Unisys path—given the plethora of platforms with COBOL and 
> Fortran support. As for relative company sizes, Unisys 2021 revenues 
> were past two billion, seemingly slightly more than what VSI has 
> accrued. Slight difference, there.

It may not be an easy sell.

But it is the type of customers that VSI wants.

Customers that are willing to pay for OS.

Not customers that want free OS.

>                                And when last I checked, VSI didn't 
> have native COBOL or Fortran compilers available for x86-64 as yet.

That is supposedly close.

Arne