[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[Subcommandante XDelta]

Bill Gunshannon:

:

>>>> when the owner of a product tells its customers to stop buying that
>>>> product, it should be no surprise to anyone that people stop buying it.
>>>
>>> A friend ended up with a job with a group of hospitals.  There was some 
>>> fierce efforts made by some to get the hospitals to implement a weendoze 
>>> environment.  At one meeting Joe pointed out to the executives, "you can 
>>> pick any environment you want to, but the only 2 that do what we need is 
>>> IBM and DEC.  The weendoze weenies lost that argument ....
>>
> 
> Ooops.  Sorry.  Hit the wrong button.
> 
> I just wanted to say that Joe would have been wrong as there are
> Windows based alternatives to Cerner.  Systems that also run on
> VMS, but that is another issue.  Some have been around longer
> than Cerner and run on multiple platforms.  But then, no one
> expects executives to have a clue either.  They have to rely on
> their SME's and when they bullshit them, what else can they do?
> 
> bill

Well, can not the same be said for Meg Whitman with reference to the
quality of the briefings to her on VMS from her managerial sub-ordinates?

Might as well assume that she is not cut from the same cloth as the
cavalier cavalcade of clowns, criminals, and carpet-baggers, acting the
role of CEO, that have strutted on stage under the proscenium arch of
the HP top management repertory theatre.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ninety-Five_Theses

Thus, shades of Martin Luther, we come back to the Swedes of the VNA
(VMS Nordic Alliance) locking shields, getting their (long) ship
together, going viking to the USA and posting their full-page thesis
near the front door (within the first five pages) of the Church of the
Fortune five hundred, the Wall Street journal, to the current "Pope" of HP.

(Aside: Apart from VNA, another possibility is VANIR - VMS Activism
Nordic Insurgent Resistance)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanir

It is the necessary circuit breaker, she will be forced to read it,
forced to refer and respond to it in some manner, and if she has a
skerric of a homeopathic trace of an iota of competence, she will do her
own, independent prudential due diligence on VMS.

Not that HP having a "Damascene conversion" at the eleventh hour,
fifty-ninth minute and fifty-ninth second on the HP VMS Midnight Clock
is the preferred outcome.

Rather agreeing to sell VMS to a consortium composed of the remaining
2000 paying customers, to preserve HPs reputation that they give a damn
about their business customers.

After which the 2000 can charge themselves a fortune for maintenance,
support, research and development, and without paradox, reap the
dividends of total control over quality assurance over those four
functions, above and beyond any conventional dividends, that may arise.