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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 3/7/2012 10:06 AM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article<4F5769D5.5050107 at comcast.net>, "Richard B. Gilbert"<rgilbert88 at comcast.net>  writes:
>> On 3/7/2012 7:15 AM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> In article<zcadnY76nsMkQ8vSnZ2dnUVZ_vOdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert"<rgilbert88 at comcast.net>   writes:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> And now it IS 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 need to get out more Richard! :)

Hey!  It works for me.  Has for years!  Windows XP Service Pack 3.

Am I supposed to replace it with the cryptic language used by Unix 
and/or Linux?

No thanks!

VMS is great but I can't afford it and the applications I need either 
don't run under VMS or I can't afford them.

Word or equivalent  (Word Perfect is or was available $$$$$$)
I have a licensed copy for Windows
Lotus 1-2-3 or equivalent
Family Tree Maker
CardFile
TurboTax (Federal & State Income Tax)
Quicken (My checking account)
Bridge Baron (Contract Bridge game)
Motorola Phone Tools  (Cell-Phone stuff)
Etc.