[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[John Dallman]

In article <v21td4$pa2n$2 at dont-email.me>, ldo at nz.invalid (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro) wrote:

> Sure. We are aware of the legal maneouvring behind the scenes. But 
> the immediate optics of it, intended or not, is that they are 
> reluctant to give a vote of confidence in their own technology, 
> instead favouring a different open-source rival.
> 
> That has got to be a source of corporate embarrassment.

I think you underrate Oracle's ability to justify their actions to
themselves, and overrate the extent to which they care about what pundits
say. 

If customers start dropping Oracle Linux and telling Oracle it's because
of the lack of OpenZFS, that might have some effect. But Oracle Linux
customers are mostly seeking an all-Oracle stack AFAIK, so they're
unlikely to drop Oracle Linux. 

John