[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <529f684b$0$2042$426a74cc at news.free.fr>,
	"Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)"   <gerard.calliet at pia-sofer.fr> writes:
> Le 04/12/2013 17:17, Bill Gunshannon a écrit :
>> It is certainly not that "we must not do anything" as much as you can
>> do nothing.  You don't own it.  You don't control it.  If HP is not
>> willing to keep it going, it will die.

And people wonder why no one takes c.o.v denizens seriously....

> Ok. I heard about USA as a free country, and liberal economics as 
> freedom bases.
>

Certainly.  But, apparently you have a totally different understanding of
what that means than the rest of the world.
 
> So.
> 
> About 4000 customers around te world saying "our supplier is a dumb". 

4000 customers in an industry with probably more than 400,000,000
customers?  Insignificant.  It is even insignificant if you only
looked at the US.

> Two or three free analysts saying "this decision is a bug". 

Not sure what a "free analyst" is but unless your paying him to say
it none is likely to write anything good about VMS.  Analysts don't
follow the rants of people out of touch with reality, they follow
real trends in business.

>                                                              About 100000 
> users saying we think about our security. 

As has been pointed out, VMS didn't have the security market cornered.
And 100000 users is still insignificant in a business with  several
hundred million users.

>                                           About 1 article in the "wall 
> street journal" saying "hum, HP stake-holders have buyed the wrong 
> action, buy Oracle actions". 

Why on earth would they say that?

>                              One big thinker saying "cloud" is a risk, 
> and is not the same thing as mission critical... One political analyst 
> saying "Obama choosed the wring IT manager" (oups ! I don't know 
> anything about US politicals, forget it !)....

Apparently don't know a lot about a lot of things.  But, lets continue...

> 
> In a free country, with free customers and free market, it is not 
> possible to act against twenty dumb managers ? 

Sure it is.  Start your own company and compete against them.  But
you don't own VMS and have no say in what its owners want to do with
it.  That's one of the tihings that "free" means.  HP is "free" to
do whatever it wants with its property regardless of what you think.

>                                                The very name of HP DG is 
> not Meg Withman, but Joseph Staline ? 

Huh?  Seems you are the one with Stalinist leanings.  You want to force
someone to meet your desires regarding the disposition of their property.

>                                       Tell me about that, because I have 
> to choose my next hollydays, and I thought USA was a good choice, and 
> for now, I'm in uncertainity.

So, let me get this straight, if Space Mountain is being run by a VAX
with VMS you won't be coming to Disneyland.

bill

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