[Info-vax] VMS survivability (was: Re: Rendez-vous autour de VMS" of January 31 2023 report)

[Dan Cross]

In article <tsuf5n$hia4$2 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 2/19/2023 4:59 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> In article <tsu4oc$gfrl$2 at dont-email.me>,
>> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> On 2/19/2023 4:02 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>>>> In article <tstaid$dhc4$2 at dont-email.me>,
>>>> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>>> On 2/18/2023 9:49 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>>>>>> In article <tsrr9q$5qhq$4 at dont-email.me>,
>>>>>> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>>>>> Most of them are still selling. Oracle is selling Solaris.
>>>>>>> IBM is selling AIX. HPE is selling HP-UX. HPE is not selling
>>>>>>> Tru64.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Literally every single one of those has been EOL'ed.
>>>>>> Every. Single. One.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can state that and sound totally convincing.
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem is that everybody that know how to use
>>>>> basic search on the internet can detect that it is
>>>>> a lie.
>>>>
>>>> I think the problem here is that you lack the sophistication to
>>>> understand that small security releases (likely as part of
>>>> ongoing contractual obligations) do not mean that something
>>>> isn't EOL'ed.
>>>
>>> The term EOL has a very specific meaning in software.
>> 
>> Citation needed.
>
>There is a great tool called Google.
>
>Try enter the search term:
>    definition:eol
>and read.

No no.  You're the one insisting on a particular definition;
therefore, the onus falls on you to cite a reference for that
definition.

FTR, I did look it up, and my reading is more ambiguous than
what you let on.  What you are describing seems closer to
EOSL.

Anyway, none of this matters: the commercial Unixes are all
dying or dead, whether you choose to admit it or not.  That is
not a good model for VMS to follow.

	- Dan C.