[Info-vax] [OT] Abbreviations, was: Re: Desperately Seeking OpenVMS ecosystem

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-12-08, Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer) <gerard.calliet at pia-sofer.fr> wrote:
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> I didn't know comp.os.vms was a club of retired embittered old men.

I am not retired and I am not old.

I also have enough experience with other environments, both as part of
my job and as a result of my personal interests, to be able to inject a
dose of reality when people talk about turning VMS into something
which can recapture some markets.

> Go on sleeping, apologies from the world of living.

I am both awake and alive and intend to continue moving forward by using
my experience to take good ideas from the past and keep them in mind
when implementing new projects.

However, I grew out of my trying to hold onto the past phase about 7 or 8
years ago.

Oh, and a core part of reliability is a engineering team which can be
trusted to build something world class (like clustering was at the time).
Please keep that in mind when considering the silently withdrawn patches
as well as the other issues which have cropped up in recent times.

The most viable way forward is to take the good ideas from VMS (such as
a DLM/clustering) and implement them in new products.

You are not going to be able to implement something in that way which
relies on the core attributes of VMS, such as it's real time performance,
but the real time market has _totally_ changed over the last couple of
decades and what used to require a dedicated VMS type system is now
done using far cheaper dedicated hardware and the VMS type systems now
take on the role of monitor instead.

And BTW, there have always been a vast range of real time tasks for which
VMS was not suitable, even in it's heyday, so please keep that in mind.

Simon.

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