[Info-vax] Computerworld: OpenVM was too consistent

["Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)"]

Le 13/12/2013 20:58, JF Mezei a écrit :
> 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:
As usual ? :=)

We are boring, we have to know it, but we have to understand why :

two reasons : we didn't have fun projects,
1) we didn't modernize, for two reasons:
1.1) our supplier didn't care about VMS, and didn't invest anything for 
more than 10 years
1.2) we didn't, as a community, adopt any new things from the new brave 
IT, for two reasons :
1.2.1) we had very good critics about new things (itanic, java, open 
source...),
1.2.2) we used these critics to do nothing new.
2) the general context of mission critical has evolved for two reasons :
2.1) "software that works" is worth it only in central critic domains, 
unseened by DG,
2.2) we don't need tera or mega flops to help video transports, or games 
support, so our market is not of interest.

A little bit boring presentation :=(

What was funny with VMS compared to Big Blue ?
VMS was about mini-computer. Concept : Agile Mission Critical.

Future of VMS : Agile Mission Critical

VMS against Big Blue : to prove mission critical could be agile
VMS against modern clue : to prove agility needs mission critical centers.