[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/25/2023 3:14 PM, jimc... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 at 11:53:29 AM UTC-8, Arne Vajhøj
> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> For some time, VSI made bold public statements about VMS being a
> competitive replacement for other platforms, usually based on some
> 1980s-era marketing language around being more secure and stable
> 
> It would seem they are now being more realistic, or at least
> postponing that talk until they're finished bringing x86-64 to at
> least early-2000s Alpha parity

I don't think that it is a recent change.

It has been the message for some time.

>> Ask them again in 2028 and they may have a different answer.
> 
> The amount of technical debt to be completed in order to expand their
> market share will only grow in the intervening years between now and
> 2028

Some yes.

But VSI do not need to wait until 2028 to start the work.

The following is not from VSI but my speculation:

           VSI sales & support people          VSI R&D people
phase 1   convince customers to stay on VMS   produce VMS x86-64
phase 2   get customers from AXP/I64 to x64   enhance VMS as SW platform
phase 3   start sell VMS to new customers     ?

Arne