From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 8/13/2025 7:55 AM, Robert B. Carleton wrote:   
   > On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:46:18 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >> Customers pay annual software update license on Alpha and Itanium today.   
   >>   
   >> And if they get the x86-64 port out the door, then customers will pay   
   >> pay annual software update license on x86-64.   
   >>   
   >> So annual revenue and annual cost. Hopefully with a profit.   
   >> But point being that the profit is relative small in the bigger Oracle   
   >> picture.   
   >>   
   >> If they don't get the x86-64 port out the door then both annual revenue   
   >> and annual cost will eventually move to zero.   
   >   
   > I'll speculate that part of Oracle's interest is to move OpenVMS/Rdb   
   > workloads to OCI, in addition to any Rdb licensing that they hope to earn.   
      
   Yes.   
      
   In another post I wrote:   
      
   # Note that both Rdb team and VSI seems to have been   
   # trying to build an alliance by pushing Oracle cloud   
   # for Rdb and VMS in general.   
   #   
   # The competition OCI vs AWS vs Azure vs GCP is hard. And   
   # anything giving more customers for Oracle cloud could   
   # get at least some support from Oracle cloud team.   
      
   Arne   
      
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