[Info-vax] Ann's "Toxic Customers"

[Richard Maher]

Hi Arne,

"Arne Vajhøj" <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote in message
news:49c6da94$0$90276$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk...
> Neil Rieck wrote:
> > Needless to say our databases are still based upon RMS but I'm sure
> > we'll get there some day. Oracle-RDB is the Cadillac solution. (if
> > OpenVMS is ever ported to x86-64 then I'm sure this technology
> > (OpenVMS-RDB) would attain critical mass)
>
> I doubt that.
>
> I don't think the price difference Itanium - x86-64 and uncertainty
> about Itanium are the only reasons holding back VMS.
>
> The market wants Linux.

Maybe there's only one Stall set out in Arne's market (or only one Stock),
but where I come from there are one or two people in the fruit & veg section
that are paying handsomely for Windows .NET and SQL Server. Must be it's an
Australian thing? I guess it just depends which barrow the barrow-boy of the
day is pushing I suppose. (What's the percentage of IIS or SQL Server or
.NET you imagine on Windows as opposed to the "free" Apache or MySQL or
WAMP?)

I happen to think computing is a broader church than what you imply and I'm
am extremely proud of what VMS has achieved and the market it has held on
to, given the woefully incompetent "leadership" that it has been subjected
to over the years. But it appears, at least to me, that Ann MacQuaid and her
lackys have deemed the VMS installed base to be a toxic-asset that has to be
removed from the balance-sheet. Once they're gone then she can achieve her
ultimate goal of the worst-performing, out-of date, and most-expensive,
[L/V]AMP server on the market.

Ol' Baldrick MacQuaid appears to have a cunning-plan alright, she's turning
VMS into the biggest turnip the world has ever seen! Stunned into absolute
incredulity by how long the tenacious VMS customer-base is willing to hang
on when faced with a barage of nothing but green-screens and FTP, she will
now oversee the total anihilation of VMS engineering while promoting those
arse-wipes that gave us BridgeWorks, WSIT, and "The Grand PoohBah of
Stategic Freeware and Busy-Work".

I say "The market wants VMS!". Sure it may only ever be a niche market, but
a viable and profitable market nonetheless, and I certainly wouldn't be
embarassed about taking the money from it. How many Stock Exchanges are
running VMS and choosing it again AND AGAIN.

Anyway I'll let you get back to "World OS Domination or Nothing!". . .

>
> It may only be a Chevrolet, but ...
>
> Arne

Cheers Richard Maher