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

[Michael Kraemer]

John Wallace schrieb:

> Have you ever done business with National Instruments? No I haven't
> either, but everything I hear about them says they sell a range of
> quality product at a premium price with a service to match, much like
> DEC in the good old days, and that their employees are happy to work
> there. How do they do it? Well I suspect at least part of the magic is
> that their customers are scientists and engineers not trend-following
> and/or bean-counting IT people. 

NI stuff is (almost) all Weendoze,
and most scientists and engineers have the same sheep mentality
as everybody else.

> Decent technologists still have an
> understanding of the difference between price and value. IT
> departments mostly lost that understanding over a decade ago.