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

["Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)"]

Le 09/12/2013 13:11, Michael Kraemer a écrit :
> Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer) schrieb:
>
>> Examples, I got in our survey :
>> France, Steel Industry, turnover 9,4 billions €, 38 000 users : "we
>> want to go on on VMS and itanium for 20 years"
>>
>> USA, Business Intelligence, deals with 50% of fortune 100 : "HP has
>> removed trhe concept of CRITICAL from their thinking" ; "OpenVMS takes
>> 1/5th the manpower to manage of the next best OS" ; "HP has achieved
>> in the OS world what Obama just did with a web site "Much Ado about a
>> Royal Mess" and a massive IT failure."
>>
>> Germany, car manufacturing : "HP appears to be abandoning our key
>> OpenVMS technology. HP is abandoning our business."
>
> You can make as much wind as you want,
> as long as those businesses spend less than
> $100M/a (three years ago), or $30M to $50M
> nowadays, VMS can't be *that* important for
> them. And consequently not important for HP.
>
The wind is blowing HERE : bla bla bla !!!

Did anyone said VMS is addressing the same market as Window, or must be 
selled with sugars in train stations ?

I think I'm dreaming : cov as the best place to disagree about anything 
that can be done for vms.