[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

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In article <50341096$0$2016$c3e8da3$5e5e430d at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
>> RMS was a great idea well into the 1980s.   And it's a marvelously 
>> well-engineered system.  But it's really gotten quite feature-stale in 
>> the ensuing decades. 
>
>Doesn't that apply to VMS in general ?  When they updated ODS to have
>ODS5, they added support for "text" file names, but the DCL interfaces
>were terrible.
>
>From the "learning from history", it would be interesting to know
>whether this was due to insufficient budgets, or whether it was really
>the software technlogy/architecture that had reached its limit and
>improvements had to be kludgy o matter how much money would be poored
>into it.
>
>And if it had hit a technoogical roadblock, could VMS have added support
>for a new file system which could have co-existed with the old one to
>allow customer to transition ?
>
>
>I look at what Apple is able to achieve in terms of new software and
>changes to its 2 operating systems every year, and one can see that
>given infinite(*) budgets, you can accomplish anything you want.
>
>Imagine if VMS had been given similar budgets for improvements
>after the port to Alpha was done. It seems to me that after the port to
>Apha was done, development efforts were reduced.

It seems to me that you've just answered your own questions.
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