[Info-vax] Computerworld: OpenVM was too consistent

[JF Mezei]

On 13-12-13 10:11, tadamsmar wrote:

>> Now had CW kept VMS in the face of senior management ...
> 
> Can you blame them?  Software that works is so boring.

I'll be the devil's advocate here: if all VMS did for the last 15 years
is run stable old software with no new major projects deployed, then it
is normal that its uptime would be greater and it would not generate any
news.

It is when you deploy brand spanking new and ambitious projects that you
risk system problems/failures, and if VMS had been used to deploy large
scale projects, perhaps it too would have had its shares of very public
failures.

When that aircraft carrier stalled, was this a windows OS problem or was
it an application problem ?

The new health care system failures in the USA, are they OS problems, or
are they application/design problems ?

Of the few people who did deploy new stuff on VMS, I guess the rate of
success might be higher not due to VMS, but perhaps due to the fact that
the type of people who would choose VMS are also the types who would
have better and more realistic project mamagement and application
design/architecture.