[Info-vax] OT: ?SciFi?Humor? VMS and the HP Converged Infrastructure?

[B Dillbilly]

OT: ?SciFi?Humor? VMS and the HP Converged Infrastructure

Fingers crossed In the hope of simply keeping to a simple story ...

If I support more than one auditable company (a company of companies so to
speak, all separate, but all part of something bigger), why don't I try to
minimize cash flow by bypassing the banks?

It is not hard to minimize any companies bank transfers (either as payments or
receipts). A money out payment to one entity can also be the money in payment to
another entity (A/P to A/R). Ultimately it is just a simple series of accounting
entries. 

The supplier/customer is kept happy with all the appropriate paperwork. The
owner is happy because he has product churn (in both directions). A simple
system of identifiers (held by the banking subsystem) is the glue that holds all
the different money in/money out systems (companies) together. Multilevel *does
this make sense/cents?* subsystems (individual company and consolidated G/L's)
keep auditors and accountants happy. VMS (Value Management Systems) computers
automagically do most of the boring paperwork.

Cutting out the bank can help minimize the cash flow for all of the entities
involved. I consider this to be a strategic initiative of the HP VMS (Vendor
Marketing Strategy) Converged Infrastructure.

Just remember ... the only entity that HAS TO BE PAID, is the government. And
then even then, they will sometimes let you net out the transactions (solid
audit trails are the key to happiness!).

I do realize that saving a company or its customers some money is not the same
as making (The Vendor) some money. I just consider this to be a simple solution
to a common problem experienced by both suppliers and customers ... a shortage
of cash.

And because it is VMS (Virtual Memory System), it seems to scale up well [1]. As
the company of companies grows (by cost-effectively added more companies (a
different story)), the opportunities only seem to increase. Once you gain
control of the banks, it is pretty easy to imagine (and only a tiny bit harder
to develop if the design is good) a different type of value system. 

Peace until next time!
And thanks for reading!

Duane
Integrated - Small Office - Business Solutions
(I.SO.BS certified)

If this story gives you something to think about, a laugh, or even makes you
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bank instead!

?Humor?

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[1] Anyone that has grown with an OpenVMS customer only knows too well that
there is a ceiling that a small business OpenVMS system cannot break through.
Once an OpenVMS based company of companies gets large enough, it becomes very
good looking to the larger (and usually much richer) companies ... And we all
know that the big money $$$ eats the little money $. But they usually (always?)
gag up on OpenVMS dollar sign *$* (more stories for later).

[2] A blatant hijacking of the Vendors Marketing Strategy (VMS) and replacing it
with real VMS.

[3] A popular(?) cloud environment application was finally debugged. It needs to
run with local admin privs and *allow all outgoing connections* on the firewall.
It gets rather grumpy if it can't communicate and carry on an exchange with a
rather long list of Internet sites that seem to have nothing to do with the
business transaction. I can remember when I worked hard to protect my customers
data. Now I work hard to give it away? (just the same old story?) :-)