[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[JF Mezei]

Neil Rieck wrote:

> 5) Itanium blades will soon appear with 32 and 64 cores

Does this mean 64 cores on one motherboard that slides into a single
slot in a blade cabinet, or does this mean that a blade cabinet will be
able to house 32 slots, each with a single dual core IA64 cpu ? (or
whatever combination of cpu/cores and blade slots).


> pick up the pieces. After all, 150,000 combined customers is nothing
> to ignore.

And these 150,000 customers would remain with Oracle as DB engine when
they move from VMS to some other OS.  Oracle wants to keep those
customers and will be as enthousiastic as possible to retain them.

This is especially true of RDB customers who are facing an eventual move
 off Rdb when they move away from VMS, so Oracle wants to have very
good, enthousiastic and positive relationship with them te ensure
highest ratio of customers who go from Rdb to Oracle instead of another
DB engine.

For Oracle, those customers are part of its bread and butter, so it
needs to work to ensure they continue to be customers. For HP, VMS is
not even peanuts, it doesn't need VMS to survive, it's got the coloured
alchool in expensive plastic cartridges to generate the profits.