[geeks] just to stir things up, a few predictions

[Mike Meredith]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 23:30:31 -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 10:04:36PM -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > VMS has a ton of areas that are definitely better.
> 
> Until it ships on a major architecture, hardly anyone will know.

Why does anyone need to know ? VMS has its niche markets and it does
very well in those markets. Seriously trying to get into other markets
will just cost money ... lots of money. Why bother ? 90% of the world
will ask whether it runs Windows, and 90% of the remainer will ask if it
runs Unix software.