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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (100765)	3/13/2000 10:06:00 AM
From: Joseph Pareti	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

>hosted on that dying, piece of crap legacy OS while i don't dispute the fact that the market share of alpha is negligible when compared to wintel, the value of VMS as an OS is quite another matter. Your statement reveals how knowledgeable you are on the matter ;-) There is currently no unix in the industry (let alone Windows and Co) coming anywhere near to the vms functionality and robustness. May be M$FT will deliver galaxy-like OS class in W3K... That VMS is dying,... well ask Palmer how successful his 10 years tenure was. Don't blame engineers for a piece of work you're too dumb to understand.

To: Gerald Walls who wrote (100765)	3/13/2000 4:57:00 PM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

While I wouldn't disagree that VMS hasn't grown market share in the early 90s, it is doing quite while. In fact, VMS in 3Q99 had pretty substantial growth in Western Europe: unix.digital.com "Compaq was also the only computer company to record an increase in sales outside of the dominant UNIX mid-range server segment. According to IDC, Compaq's OpenVMS sales were up by 62 percent in the sector. The sharpest decline in the non-UNIX segments were experienced by AS/400 (-45 percent) and S/390 (-46 percent). These figures illustrate the extent of Compaq's success in the third quarter of last year with OpenVMS." Regarding your comments about "piece of crap legacy OS" I would take that to mean you don't know a whole lot about OSes. If you have a cell phone, the billing system is most likely running on VMS... there are few 7x24x365 databases out there but the ones there are fit nicely with VMS... Before you shoot off about this, keep in mind you need to be able to upgrade the OS WITHOUT losing application availability. One other point.. VMS will scale in I/O capabilies far beyond Unix (Tru64, or others) in the next few years... If you have a few hours, you may wish to learn more about Galaxy: openvms.digital.com Rob