[Info-vax] VMS survivability

[Dan Cross]

In article <tsujfa$hr32$2 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 2/18/2023 10:08 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> Let's turn this around: what do you think that VMS's future
>> prospects look like?
>
>I believe that:
>
>compilers/libraries/tools/platform-products available on OS
>=>
>applications available on OS
>=>
>OS sale

Maybe if those applications are available _only_ on that OS.
What incentive does a vendor have to port their applications to
VMS?  If there is no demand, because, say, a site can install
Linux for free and _run the same or equivalent applications_
then your model fails.

>I don't consider it realistic or even desirable for VMS
>to become as big as Linux.

Never said that it should.  I just said that if VSI doesn't
pivot to a different model, VMS will die.

>But if the applications desired in the market where
>VMS license cost is not a problem are available on
>VMS, then I believe VMS can grow.

"In the market where VMS license cost is not a problem".  What
market is that?  Is that a market where Linux doesn't exist as a
competitor?

>It is pointless to try and sell VMS to someone
>that runs Ubuntu or RockyLinux because RHEL
>is too expensive.
>
>But for all those systems running z, i, commercial
>Unix, maybe even Windows Server then VSI may be able
>to make money.

Yeah.  I bet those people are just dying to move to a different
closed, proprietary platform.

Did you get ChatGPT to write this for you?

>*if* the applications are there.

_And_ they are not on another more attractive platform as well.

This is the part you seem incapable of grasping.

I really don't care to keep going in circles with you,
specifically, though, so feel free to respond with some kind of
(or more likely a series of) "last-word"ish posts.

Have fun!

	- Dan C.