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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 3/6/2012 10:00 PM, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 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.
>

Windows works!  It started as something close to rotting manure.
That was years ago.  Today, it works.  It has worked for the last eight 
or nine years.  I don't know of any serious competition!

You may sneer and mutter about "click and drool".  I'm happy to finally 
have a desktop system with software that works and that I can afford.  I 
have a word processor and a spread sheet.  I could have a database if I 
needed one.  I even have "Turbo Tax" which has made preparing my income 
tax return bearable.

Well, as close to bearable as it can be!