[Info-vax] how many people are running X86 variant of OPenVMS in Production?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On Wednesday, September 27, 2023 at 8:53:13 PM UTC-4, David Turner wrote:
> How many people are running X86 variant of OpenVMS in Production?

Probably not many today. But it will increase!

If we divide current VMS customers in 4 categories:
A) has moved to VMS x86-64
B) want to move to VMS x86-64 and has started test/development
C) want to move to VMS x86-64 but has not started test/development yet
    (waiting for VMS Basic, waiting for Rdb, waiting for funding,
    waiting for resources to free up from other projects etc.)
D) will never move to VMS x86-64

Right now category A is tiny as in zero or almost zero.

But over the coming years customers will move B -> A and C -> B -> A.

My expectation regarding category D would be:
* VMS VAX customers - almost everybody are frozen aka in D
* VMS Alpha customers - some are frozen aka in D, some just didn't like 
Itanium and will migrate to VMS x86-64
* VMS Itanium - most will migrate to VMS x86-64

Arne