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Arne Vajhøj  wrote:
> 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.

Some time ago you mentioned https://enlyft.com/tech/operating-systems.
I looked at this site just now and (among other) it says:

HP Open VMS 3,292

which means 3292 companies using HP Open VMS.  No mention of VSI.
My guess is that they are using statistical methods which may lead
to rather large error for less popular OS-es.  And there is probably
some delay between actual change and time when they notice it.
OTOH apparently they noticed that just saying VMS is not enough.
If their data makes any sense it suggest that majority of VMS
users is still on HPE VMS.

BTW: Looking at Linux date it seems that less than 5% companies
using Linux use comercially supported distributions.  Of course
VMS users are more likely to pay for support, but still majority
of VMS systems may be without official support.

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