[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

[H Vlems]

On 31 dec, 09:22, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> It is already 2010 in the eastern most areas of the round planet :-)
>
> Happy New Year !
> Happy New Decade !
>
> I wish everyone a happy new year and decade filled with health,
> pleasure, good food and success !
>
> The last decade wasn't exactly glorious for VMS as it started with
> Alphacide and ended with dismemberment of VMS engineering, and there was
> the La Carly entertainment in between. But there was also a big cleanup
> of VMS code with a port to that IA64 thing, as well as the 8.3 version
> which is probably to the 2000s what 5.5-2 was to the 1990s.
>
> There will me many challenges coming in the next decade and perhaps some
> major changes such as disapearance of the POTS (plain old telephone
> system) system and perhaps even conventional television. "The network is
> the system" will be more true than ever, so will the "global village".
>
> And it looks like nudity will become standard in airports as we'll have
> to go through security naked :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

A Happy New year to all of you!!
JF, I'm afraid that the next decade will see the end of a truly great
Operating System.
The optimism generated by the port of VMS to Itanium, early 2003 is,
for me at least, completely gone.
If somebody would want an answer to the question "Name an extremely
reliable platform for a mission critical application"
then I would no longer dare to suggest VMS.
I understand the need for standardization, just trying to figure out
what kind of memory fits in a certain VAX or Alpha is a RPITA at
times.
However if standardization also means being stripped of high quality
solutions then it is not for me.
Hans

PS
Reading the text above makes me feel old ;-)