[Info-vax] Computerworld: OpenVM was too consistent

[MG]

On 12-dec-2013 17:54, tadamsmar wrote:
> "It [OpenVMS] runs mission-critical systems and because of its consistent
> performance it tendsto get little attention, except from a dedicated user
> community."
>
> "...customers have to continue to justify the OS since the higher-ups keep
> saying, 'Move to Linux or Windows or Unix,' without knowing the consequences
> of such a move."
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9239984/OpenVMS_R.I.P._1977_2020_
>
> It was too consistent.  If we had hacked into OpenVMS mission-critical
> systems while there was still time, we could have saved it. Higher ups
> would have remembered, loved, and supported OpenVMS if they had just
> gotten big bonuses for leading management efforts to save it from the
> hackers.
>
> It coulda been a contender like Java.


That has been already published (and posted here) half a year ago.

  - MG