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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/20/2023 6:17 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <tsui1g$hia4$6 at dont-email.me>,
> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> Oh?  How do you figure?  Please be specific.  Or is that just
>>> idle speculation?
>>
>> Before open sourcing Solaris was one the worlds major OS'es.
>>
>> After open sourcing it was a niche OS.
> 
> Correlation is not causation.

No. But you should read the lines following that line
to get the point.

>> That should prove that open sourcing did not solve its
>> problems.
> 
> I never said that it did.

No.

But you want VSI to do the same as SUN.

>> Maybe it even made it worse.
> 
> This is unsubstantiated nonsense.

The substantiation was in the following line, so you
should have read ahead.

>> Oracle decision to close
>> source it again indicate that Oracle believed so. Given
>> that it was their money, then they must be the expert.
> 
> Oracle: famous for making great decisions.

If we limit "great decisions" to being "decisions maximizing profit",
then Oracle is doing way better than average.

Arne