[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

["Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)"]

Le 05/12/2013 12:31, MG a écrit :
> 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
>
I take it.
Why am I so courageous ?
Have a look here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gleaners
The field is quite erased but it is always opened for gleaners