From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 8/14/2025 7:48 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   OCI is practically the only choice for cloud if running Rdb   
   due to Oracle license policy.   
      
   But even for non-Rdb customers then OCI would be first choice   
   if that is what VSI recommend and/or test first on.   
      
   Arne   
      
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