VME?

Could be. There’s a lot, a lot of technical debt in legacy industrial SCADA, and apparently a lot of investment coming in domestic manufacturing.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

And a lot of military VME, we think. We'll probably buy the study if the price is non-outrageous.

I'd love to have 1% of a 1.6B$ market.

an Indian site with some probably AI generated contentless slob, what do you think?

They are offering a sample. I'll see.

We need to confirm the sales total. I hope it's true.

I'm suspicious. For one thing, the VME line is almost linear, while one would expect it to jiggle a lot like all other market things. Unless the over filtered the data.

Wise Guy is a real company, based in Pune, India.

Question is how accurate their reports are.

There is a VMEbus trade association, VITA:

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They will know who the market research firms are, and may also have commissioned studies of their own.

Joe

Yes. VITA has a serious-looking market study for $4000, half price for members. We may as well sign up again and buy both.

It's a chore to find out what our competition makes: specs, pricing, volume. Sometimes I have an intern research it.

VPX is common as muck in the defence industry. No reason not to use it if the mechanics allow. I think all the openVPX standards are free?

Both?

A serious market survey well exceeds the capability of even the best of interns.

I'd bet that the serious studies will be eye-opening.

I also have a war study from the 1990s about the perils of surveys done by market-research organizations:

I received by email a survey from a marketing organization asking for opinions on realtime operating systems and the like. While the questions were imprecise, as is common for such surveys, there was a howler:

The survey form itself required one to use a Microsoft product, MS Excel if I recall. Now in that day a major fraction of the creators and users of realtime software were in the growing UNIX/Linux community, most being men with beards and ponytails who cursed and spat on the ground at the very mention of Microsoft. So the study was doomed to irrelevance at birth. That study was never published.

Joe

There are a ton of garbage 'outlook' reports all over Amazon, they just word salad search terms together and fill the middle with slop:

For the retrocomputing enthusiast:

Theo