Re: VMS 30th anniversary contest

AEF wrote:
I'm definitely puzzled by the motivation for this contest.

"You bought our system eons ago, never upgraded, so now we'll reward
you for not giving us any additional business by giving you your very
own Integrity server! We hope you enjoy porting your app from VMS 2.5
to 8.3!"

Look, VMS management got a few thousand bucks of marketing budget to celebrate the 30 anniversary of VMS. And finding out the oldest running VMS site would be interesting. By giving a free IA64 contraption, the VMS group probably gains the right to publish the name of the winner and brag about VMS being able to run for X years, being stable etc. And if they get that customer to migrate to that IA64 contraption, they can even claim how easy it was to migrate 30 year old software to that IA74 contraption etc etc.

There is good marketing potential for this. Of course we all know that whatever marketing the VMS group does, no matter how good it might be, will only reach the installed base.
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