[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey (google translate)

["Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)"]

Le 05/12/2013 01:12, Bill Gunshannon a écrit :
> I suspect it is time to just let this drop as I fear your command of the
> English language is not up to the task and I can assure my abilties with
> French would prove no better.
I agree on that : I don't speak good english, and perhaps you don't know 
a word of french.

What is the issue : translating from langage to langage is very 
difficult. The best translator has some trouble with idiomatic expressions.

For now HP says to VMS customers : translate from VMS to Non-Stop ! It 
is like you and me talking about philosophia or USA story, or french way 
of cooking frogs : it could be a little bit difficult, with my english 
and your french. I don't say impossible : we are alltogether VMS 
friends, so we could want to understand each other. Between VMS and 
Non-Stop, or between VMS and Windows 8.1 for enterprise, it could be 
rather more difficult.

But HP does believe it : we can sell to our customers easy "transition 
solutions". There are around meetings or mailing organized by HP which 
introduces us actors in the domain of port (transoft, sector7,...). All 
of these speaking a not-so-bad VMS langage (better than my english), but 
not-so-good either.

I don't know anything of the future for VMS : I am not a soothsayer. I 
know there are a lot of companies, small and big, which are at risk in 
this context, and I see HP is not competent in this context. So I think 
it is time to do something.

I have not any illusion about results of actions. I know who has VMS 
property. But I know if nobody does anything that the story will be 
worse. For small companies, HP don't care, and I know some of them would 
have their EOL in this context. For big companies, it would be an 
argument for their competitors, and big loss of money. For users, there 
are risks of loss of services.

I understand very well here, at cov, have been observed the programmed 
EOL of VMS for decades. So VMS EOL here is not a surprise. And if 
nothing was possible other decades, what can be possible today ?

My point is : there is a difference between progressive decadence and 
event of murder. Here, there is some sort of scandal which we can talk 
about. And, also, there is a difference between some thing we predict, 
and some thing which is here. What we predicted to DG in terms "you are 
at risk" is now "you have 2billions dollard to pay for the transition in 
six months", it is reality.

VMS EOL announce is a new context (even if we had predicted it). A new 
context involves new ideas, new acts.

If I am a little bit angry about cov, it is because I hear a majority of 
"nothing new under the sun". Seasons are changing, on the contrary, and 
it is time to change our clothing.