[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 12/4/2013 9:51 PM, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:
> JF Mezei:
>
> ...Much good, elided...
>
>> One of the problems with VMS was its isolation. Complaints through
>> normal channels would never leave the "safe" enclave of VMS/BCS and
>> never go higher than the BCS manager. That is why you need customers
>> with an activist CEO capable of bypassing all the "filtration" within HP
>> ranks and talk direcly to the CEO.
>
> That such an activist CEO could exist. (One may well exist).
>
> In a full page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal, as a
> conversation starter/opening gambit:
>
> "Dear Ms Whitman, HP CEO,
>
> Do you read here often?"
>
> :
>
>

Try "Never"!  If she DID, what would you say to her?  I doubt, that she 
would understand what you are saying here.  I doubt that she has any
contact with ANY VMS user.

Remember that the bulk of the business is ink and and revenue toner and 
that's where the money comes from!  This state of affairs has existed 
for at at least the last nine or ten years.