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   On 15/08/2025 01:06, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   > 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   
   >   
      
   I thought VSI were working with AWS   
      
      
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   Chris   
      
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