[Info-vax] Desperately Seeking OpenVMS ecosystem

[Subcommandante XDelta]

Subcommandante XDelta:
> BillPedersen:
> 
>> I think there are way enough techies and system managers here and on the SIG list to move the information to the right levels.  But I also believe there are other forums where information needs to be posted to keep people informed and involved.
> 
> I think there may be a sustainable basis for an VMS ECOsystem to fund
> its own maintenance, research and development of VMS.
> 
> From the various conversation strands, there are circa 2000 VMS shops
> paying maintenance fees to HP, there are circa 1000 hobbyist licences
> being renewed annually. And the sake of the argument, let us assume,
> pending any evidence to the contrary, that there are an additional 2000
> or so VMS shops, going it alone, having no relationship with HP.
> 
> That might be a self-sustaining matrix for a VMS Ecology, so long as
> information "integration circuitry" of both a push and a pull nature can
> be made known and available to all elements (vendor or end-user) in the
> matrix. (matrix in the sense of nourising womb, rather than mathematical)

:

> By such a VMS ECOlogy HBICH, it may be possible that the VMS ECOlogy can
> become maximally self-informing and as a consequence, can co-operatively
> co-ordinate self-determination of the fate and future of the VMS
> ECOlogy, with or without the co-operation of the HP Corporation.
> 
> Any way, some rough clay for conversation purposes, tear it all down,
> build on it further, think of something better, feel welcome.

I know, I know, it must be my aftershave. ;-)

OLD_SPICE_16 and BRUT_32, in case you were wondering.