[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[JF Mezei]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> If the VMS market does not earn enough money to carry its weight it will
> be abandoned.  

Correct. At the moment, Oracle and VMS continue. Cerner has gotten out
of VMS.

This isn't just about CURRENT revenue vs cost. It is about projections.

Say you need 100k nodes to generate enough revenues to continue to
support a VMS version of a product. You currently have 200k nodes, so
VMS is quite profitable.

BUT. Last year, you were at 350k nodes, this year only at 200k and
preductions are that you may be at fewer than 100k nodes next year.

If predictions show you will stop making money from VMS in the near
future, then you start to take actions now to start to prepare for that day.


Oracle may be all smiles today when it deals with VMS customers. But
internally, it would have some powerpoint slides showing trends in VMS
generated revenues and some line drawn where VMS stop being profitable
shoudl current decline continue.