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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/28/2023 4:04 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

One could use a random number generator to produce some
guesses:

    2023   2024   2025   2026   2027   2028
A    0%    20%    45%    70%    75%    80%
B   30%    35%    15%    10%     5%     0%
C   50%    25%    10%     0%     0%     0%
D   20%    20%    20%    20%    20%    20%

But nobody knows.

Arne