[Info-vax] Where is VMS used for new projects?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2011-02-19, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:
> Neil Rieck schrieb:
>
>> The problem with bean counters (at least where I work) is that they
>> never look at TCO issues like reduced power and air conditioning
>> (which come out of two different budgets paid by someone else). They
>> only see these mini-computer guys asking them to cut a cheque for
>> technologies (Itanium, OpenVMS, whatever) the bean counters never
>> heard about at university. 
>
> Declare them as "special electronic equipment" or such.
>

That worked for early DEC. :-)

(Think about why the PDPs _were_ named as PDPs and did not include the
word "computer" in the title.)

Simon.

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