[Info-vax] VMS survivability

[Dan Cross]

In article <k5crhdFroqeU1 at mid.individual.net>,
Michael Kraemer @ home <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:
>Dan Cross wrote:
>> I'll be blunt: the only reasonable path for VMS to survive
>> is to open source it under an OSI-approved license.  VSI
>> should dedicated itself to finishing the x86_64 port and
>> doing the necessary legal work to make that happen, and
>> then pivot to consulting and services (honestly: this is
>> what DEC should have done, and it's largely what IBM did
>> in order to survive in the 00's).
>
>what exactly did IBM opensource in the 00's?
>MVS? AIX? i? the Tivoli stuff?

JFS, a bunch of stuff that went into Linux, etc, etc,
etc.  More importantly, they embraced consulting and
services, which arguably saved them.

	- Dan C.