[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/7/2024 2:47 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <memo.20240107190811.16260s at jgd.cix.co.uk>,
> John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>> Cut back their hardware development, since it was expensive, making their
>> systems even less competitive.
> 
> Yes.  They really missed the boat on x86.

Solaris has been available for x86 since 1993.

But I don't think there were that much customer
interest in the x86 and later x86-64 version of Solaris.

And there were not much money in it for Sun, because
the system manufacturer (IBM/HP/Dell/whoever) would get most
of the money.

So few customers for a product that the vendor preferred
customers did not pick.

Arne