Seriously though - looking at VSI pages it looks like basically the VMS systems team greybeards spun off into a company. If they want to see their whole life's

Seriously though - looking at VSI pages it looks like basically the VMS systems team greybeards spun off into a company. If they want to see their whole life's work survive instead of fading into increasing irrelevance, they should just open source it under a 'freemium' model. With a bit of polish/tlc and focus on that area + maybe linux container emulation support to ease compatibility issues, it would make a pretty amazing basis for a 'cloud native' and 'iot' OS in addition to the ways that it's currently used.