[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

[H Vlems]

On 4 jan, 01:57, "Richard Maher" <maher... at hotspamnotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> "H Vlems" <hvl... at freenet.de> wrote in message
>
> news:c08f0307-0b75-4515-962b-fd609709d6d7 at 26g2000yqo.googlegroups.com...
> [lots of stuff]
>
> This is where the argument gets hijacked, or at least our paths diverge. I
> am not asking for VMS on the desktop, or even another bollocks browser
> implemention. (God knows we've got enough of them :-( ) I am also not asking
> VMS to perform the best come-back since Lazarus and compete with give-away
> Linux. All of this, I guess, because I have never seen the OS wars as an
> either/or proposition. VMS has a place and I maintain a very profitable
> place in the OS market and with cloud-computing gaining traction then a
> reliable, disaster-tolerant OS may be just what some are after? It's a broad
> church and all very multi-cultural out there.
>
> The problem is that customers have been unable to easily integrate VMS into
> their mainstream infrastructure and data centres. As I have said before, the
> answer lies in integrate , Intgrate, INTERGRATE and not emulate, Emulate,
> EMULATE! Stop being ashamed of VMS's strengths and stop trying to quack like
> a penguin. (But most importanly, get rid of the filth at HP/VMS that refuse
> to act on anything unless they can personally profit from it!)
>
> Regards Richard Maher
>
> BTW (in line with the topic) Happy New Year and I hope everyone had a great
> Christmas! There's plenty of life left in VMS yet and let's hope the ghost
> of Christmas future paid a visit to VMS middlemanagement this year.

Richard, I'm getting the feeling that our visions of how VMS could
survive in the future don't differ that much after all.
I am not sure what you mean with VMS inability at being targeted at
the desktop, or that it is undesirable.AFAIK
there has always been terminal support in VMS and that is suffucient
for me.
As for seamless integration, VMS is quite good at maintaining data and
databases. There was an Affinity program once,
a vision of Windows NT worksations and VMS fileservers. In practice
this didn't work too well owing to the differences
in the filesystems at both ends. NTFS integration (here emulation
could be an advantage) in VMS could be better.
The point is that HP doesn't seem to be invest much in new VMS
development. Perhaps the team in India will get the funding.
If not then, well my crystal ball is on the blink, the future of VMS
is probably determined by the time Oracle will support it.
Hans