10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
10:10 p.m.
At 9:52 PM -0500 6/10/09, John Foust wrote:
At 12:02 PM 6/10/2009, William Donzelli wrote:
IIRC, they've claimed 400,000 for years, and at the same time you're
always hearing of customers moving off of it. The reasons for the
lack of new customers are totally the Corporate owners fault. It has
been on a decline for well over a decade. The moves to kill it off
started with DEC itself.
Zane
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I never said VMS is dead - if I did, please point
it out and
acknowledge. I did say VMS is a "sinking ship". Not only is the market
share tiny and shrinking, but its installation base (number of
machines running VMS in production) is also shrinking. There are
pretty much no new VMS customers. VMS is speeding along to being
insignificant.
Not intending to fan flames, but what might those two numbers be?
What's VMS's present estimated installed base, what was its
direction and rate of change in the last decade?