[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[David Froble]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> Except that a very common adttitude I have seen in VMS shops is if it
> didn't come inbinary on a layered products disk it will not be running
> on our production machines.  I believe AEF mentioned that he works on
> lots of machines that will not let him install other programs.  And even
> The University I worked at which used to have thiings like Emacs and Pine
> and some other usefull open source stuff made the decision that none of
> that stuff would be supported any more.  I think most Unix systems are
> much more willing to run open source.  I know that on the systems I
> admined I would run anything that was available in source, would compile
> on our systems and would not adversely impact performance.
> 
> bill
> 

Well, you won't get an argument from me on some of the attitudes.  When 
I was with Transcomm, 1980 ish, we lost sales because our software used 
our own database instead of RMS.  Funny ideas some people had, and, in 
my own opinion, had a small bit to do with the decline of VMS.

I don't know where some of these people ended up.  Surely not running 
"open" stuff.  If so, real hypocrites.  Probably are the types who would 
choose SAP.  And once again spending more for less.