Re: SPRs and vmssoftware.com

On 7/10/2025 2:59 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:

Also, I am not convinced that saying "OpenVMS V9.2-3 is available and
running on over 200 servers worldwide and the Cloud." on their homepage
gives the message you expect it to. If that's true, then the VMS user base
appears to have finally undergone a massive reduction.

Note that the VMS user base consist of:
x86-64 running VSI VMS 9.2-3
x86-64 running VSI VMS older 9.x
Itanium running VSI VMS 8.4-2Lx
Alpha running VSI VMS 8.4-2Lx
Itanium running HP VMS 8.x
Alpha running HP/CPQ/DEC VMS 6.x-8.x (I assume noone run 1.x)
VAX running CPQ/DEC VMS 4.x-7.x (I assume noone run 1.x-3.x)
Likely a lot VMS customers are testing VMS x86-64 but production
has not yet been moved from Alpha/Itanium to x86-64.
So the number of VMS 9.2-3 systems is far less than the
number of VMS systems in total.
But still 200 sounds very low.
I believe 9.2-3 was GA 20-Nov-2024.
Per archive.org the 200 number showed up between 3-Jan-2025
and 20-Jan-2025.
Assuming the number is correct when written, then 200 after
like one work month (I am deducting a little for Christmas
vacation) is too low. It is less than 2500 per year.
VSI need upgrade rate to accelerate! But VMS users can be
a little slow to upgrade.
And without any discussion then the number should be updated on
the web page - either with a current number or removed.
Arne