[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <006287ad$0$23483$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 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.

You mean like "retiring" your long-time engineering staff and off-shoring
your engineering to a cheap and as a result low quality operation?  

> 
> 
> 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.

bill

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