[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[MG]

On 5-dec-2013 11:52, "Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)" wrote:
> It is not the time to do large historical analysis, perhaps, even if it
> is of interest. But, just to say something :
>
> We talk about dead of VMS, and dead of Itanium.
>
> The similiraty between these events is End of Diversity.
>
> Itanium dead for a lot of reasons exposed here, I agree. There is
> another factor : our logic in industry now is : impossible to go out a
> main stream, when it exists.
>
> Itanium was killed also because it is impossible to go out x86, and out
> of the wars around it.
>
> VMS is murdered because the mission critical concept is decadent, and DG
> think about mission critical as it could be "on the cloud".
>
> Everything is a windows xx, running on a x86 yy, all of them in "the
> clouds".
>
> As we destruct every days bio-species, and every month forget a langage,
> we destruct diversity in computer science.
>
> In other words, fighting for VMS is like fighting against End of Forests
> : it is fighting for oxygen.

Do yourself a big favor, do what I did and simply give up.  Have
you not noticed yet?  Hardly anyone on here can be bothered with
VMS.  The only reason, I assume, that some still do is because
they're still employed with it (and for how long?), are simply
'used to' it, just so happen to run it and don't know much of
anything else to switch easily or find it a fun hobby.

You seem to have your heart in the right place, but it won't be
appreciated here anyway, as you've also noticed so far.  (I would
have told you this earlier, but I was away and out of the country
for about 10 days and didn't often have internet at my disposal.)

People like yourself may be possibly vindicated when things like
nuclear reactors start running on Ubuntu, with all of the possible
consequences.  Until then, there's no reason to waste any breath
or break a sweat over here, amongst all of these intentionally
dense contrarians, naysayers, usual IT/ICT industry (borderline-)
sociopaths and what-not.

  - MG