From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 8/14/2025 8:02 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   But for those that by principle don't buy anything   
   Oracle, then I suggest reaching out to David Cathey.   
   He is now senior solution architect at AWS and I think   
   he would be just the right person to move some VMS   
   systems to AWS.   
      
   Arne   
      
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