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On 9/28/2023 4:04 PM, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 27, 2023 at 8:53:13 PM UTC-4, David Turner wrote:
>> How many people are running X86 variant of OpenVMS in Production?
>
> Probably not many today. But it will increase!
>
> If we divide current VMS customers in 4 categories:
> A) has moved to VMS x86-64
> B) want to move to VMS x86-64 and has started test/development
> C) want to move to VMS x86-64 but has not started test/development yet
> (waiting for VMS Basic, waiting for Rdb, waiting for funding,
> waiting for resources to free up from other projects etc.)
> D) will never move to VMS x86-64
>
> Right now category A is tiny as in zero or almost zero.
>
> But over the coming years customers will move B -> A and C -> B -> A.
One could use a random number generator to produce some
guesses:
2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028
A 0% 20% 45% 70% 75% 80%
B 30% 35% 15% 10% 5% 0%
C 50% 25% 10% 0% 0% 0%
D 20% 20% 20% 20% 20% 20%
But nobody knows.
Arne
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