[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Wed, 15 May 2024 10:47 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:

> 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.

I’m thinking of their marketing machine, and how they explain themselves 
to customers.

> If customers start dropping Oracle Linux and telling Oracle it's because
> of the lack of OpenZFS, that might have some effect.

Last I checked (some years ago, admittedly), Oracle’s “Unbreakable” Linux 
had achieved about 0.1% the market penetration of RHEL.

Maybe Oracle Linux is just some kind of corporate vanity project, and they 
aren’t too bothered about the fact that it isn’t very popular.