[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/24/2023 1:17 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-01-24, Ian Miller <gxys at uk2.net> wrote:
> Efforts to expand the VMS userbase have been abandoned:
> 
> |Are there any sales efforts for OpenVMS to take back industry market share
> |from other operating systems that later "replaced" VMS? Or bid on new
> |industrial projects that would run on VMS?
> |
> |Our primary objective is to provide current OpenVMS users with the
> |opportunity to protect their investments in OpenVMS-based applications
> |without a technical deadline.
> 
> In reality, I suppose this is just confirming what everyone in their
> heart really knew (even if some were not willing to admit it. :-))

????

Hasn't it been informally known for a decade and formally known
for years that VSI focus was to get the existing VMS customers
from Alpha and Itanium to x86-64 and that new customers are
future after that?

So I don't see anything being abandoned.

9.2 is out, but they are still missing some relevant products
like native compilers, Rdb etc.. Hopefully all these will show
up this year and early next year.

When these are available then the existing customers will
need to migrate. It will take many years.

And there are some things VSI will need to get done (incl. a lot
in compiler, library, tooling and server products) before
chasing new customers make sense.

Ask them again in 2028 and they may have a different answer.

Arne