[Info-vax] Development webinar

[Michael Kraemer]

Hein RMS van den Heuvel schrieb:
> On Nov 18, 11:19 am, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>On 2010-11-18 16:51, Michael Kraemer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>In article<gWbFo.2624$gM3.1... at viwinnwfe01.internal.bigpond.com>, "Tim E.
>>>Sneddon"<tim.sned... at bigpond.com>  writes:
>>
>>>>The slides can be found here:
>>
>>>>     http://twitdoc.com/c/9v8q33
>>
>>>which VMS version would one need to actually view them?
>>
>>Who on earth whould even think of using a VMS system for that ?
> 
> 
> Agreed.  Probably the same folks who are still asking for a port to
> x86 and ask for an OpenVMS  based VM Hypervisor. I have zero respect
> for those sentiments. Sorry.

It's not sentiment, but simple marketing logic,
but probably you have zero respect for that either.
A platform on the edge of extinction should welcome
every opportunity to be on display, in order to attract
new users, developers, customers etc.
Dumbing it down to server only is exactly the opposite.
Of all IT ecosystems (especially the dying ones) VMS
is about the only one where people prefer to have
less applications rather than more.
A strange land indeed.