Re: VMS runs well on HP Superdome

From: Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy (Andrew_No.Harrison_No_at_nospamn.sun.com)
Date: 01/08/04 

Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:21:45 +0000

Bob Ceculski wrote:
> Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy <Andrew_No.Harrison_No@nospamn.sun.com> wrote in message news:<btjghu$3l4$1@new-usenet.uk.sun.com>...
>
>>With OpenVMS's clustering capabilites
>>the most obvious platform would be
>>clusters of 2-4 way IA64 servers
>>which if they become a commodity
>>HP will not make money on.
>>
>>So I repeat why on earth would you
>>want to sell hardware. You are much
>>more likely to make a return from
>>selling SW.
>>
>>You are between a rock and a hard place
>>for Itanium to survive it has to become
>>a commodity, but you can only make money
>>at the low end if you arn't having to compete
>>on a commodity basis with Dell.
>>
>>Regards
>>Andrew Harrison
>
>
> exactly, and with HP the only Itanium vendor offering VMS
> to both the high and low end, you achieve both of the
> above ... get VMS into the low end big has always been the
> key ... if you do that, you will dominate ... no other
> platform offers what VMS does, so this is possible ...

Well from a system size standpoint its already
there the average number of CPU's in the Alphaservers
HP is currently shipping is ~2.

And of course everything is possible Bob but is it likely ?

For it to be likely OpenVMS would need applications you
cannot dominate a market that is driven by software
applications without them and lets face it software
availability on OpenVMS isn't improving is it.

For it to dominate OpenVMS would also need marketing,
business development, sales, sales support, 3rd party
channels etc.

None of this is improving is it ? So its possible
the OpenVMS could dominate but highly unlikely.

regards
Andrew Harrison

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