[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these days?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2012-03-05, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> PS: In case my point is too subtle: I don't subscribe to JF style
>> theories, but instead believe in taking a evidence based approach when
>> possible and there's now plenty of evidence with which the quality of
>> the VMS India team can be compared to the old Nashua VMS team.
>
> Not really fair, as the software development group that DEC at one time
> had can arguably be claimed to have been the best ever, and that no other
> group has ever come close since then.
>
> But, what do I know ....

Why is that not a fair comparison ?

People invested in the DEC world (from the massive sites to the small
sites I am used to) simply because it was the best quality option
available at the time.

If HP want to replace all the talented people with their own teams, the
replacements _are_ going to be judged to those same standards, instead of
the standards present in lower quality parts of the computing world.

Simon.

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