[Info-vax] Gartner report on VMS future.

[DaveG]

On Sep 15, 9:07 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <990072dd-35b8-4d3e-9482-2588c6f79... at f10g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>, sapienzaf <sapie... at noesys.com> writes:
>
> > I don't read it as "advocating" a move.  It seems kind of neutral to
> > me, only mentioning options based on the decisions made by the
> > reader.  There are actually some positive statements about OpenVMS in
> > there.
>
>    "OpenVMS is an excellent OS with good uptime and rich functionality.
>     Even today, it is debatable whether the best of Unix can offer the
>     same levels of capability as legacy operating systems such as OpenVMS
>     or IBM's i5OS ("i" OS)."
>
>   Doesn't sound that negative to me.  Some folks here will insist that
>   Gartner is wrong about UNIX not being up to snuff compared to VMS.

I agree that the article didn't sound negative, but it was aimed at
the current (dwindling) customer base, which makes sense based on the
Alpha migration title.  I very much doubt that our friends at Gartner
will suggest or recommend that new customers take a ride on the VMS
train.  Have they ever?  I don't know.  I've never followed the Armani
suit crowd, as Terry Shannon used to call them.