[Info-vax] Desperately Seeking OpenVMS ecosystem

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 11/24/2013 3:57 AM, "Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)" wrote:
> Le 23/11/2013 12:49, Jan-Erik Soderholm a écrit :
>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote 2013-11-23 03:01:
>>> On 11/18/2013 3:42 AM, "Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)" wrote:
>>>> Le 18/11/2013 08:09, Michael Kraemer a écrit :
>>>>> Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer) schrieb:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Have a look on our site (www.hp-interex.fr), download a .ppt (Vms
>>>>>> friends, season 1). Have a look on the two first slides.
>>>>>
>>>>> And what shall we do with a ppt on VMS?
>>>>>
>>>> In these ppt, there are arguments and analysis, notably an analysis
>>>> about how VMS community can be manipulated by HP.
>>>> But what is to be done are actions, for sure. We initiated in france
>>>> the
>>>> survey you can read on our site. As a milestone. Perhaps the first
>>>> think
>>>> is to know who we are as VMS users, how many, which needs...
>>>> In france, like in another countries, I think, we have very few means,
>>>> and an initiative like ours must be relayed to succeed.
>>>> VMS friends need friends.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I give up!  What is "ppt"?
>>>
>>

If you are crippled and unable to type the full text, e.g. "Power Point" 
you may have some excuse for for abbreviating "Power Point".

My English Composition Instructor would have insisted that the full name 
be used.

>> What a childish behavior...

I'd call it "Lazy".
>>
>> Entering "ppt" in Google gave these two pages as
>> the *first two* hits:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPT
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint
>>
>> But then, if one can post silly posts about simple
>> spelling errors, I guess one also feels free to spam
>> c.o.v with this kind of idiotic posts...
>>
>> Grow up.
>>
>>
> Don't worry about it Jan-Erik : perhaps Mr Richard B. Gilbert give up
> about VMS, and his message is just despair.
>
> And, like me, he doesn't unserstdand how just three letters P P T can
> transform a bunch of professionals in a sort of delirious court.
>
> Perhaps VMS is already in hell, and all we can do is, like Dante (oups,
> some european culture,I apologize) claming some poems as we go down
> throught circles of hell.
>
> More seriously, I repeat : who is going in Barcelona at HP Discover, 6th
> december ? Can we meet there ? And do something ?
>
>