[Info-vax] OpenVMS versus Windows/GE Telemetry Control Systems.

[David Froble]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> David Froble schrieb:
> 
>>
>> Bottom line, you'll usually lose any disputes with management.  About 
>> the only thing you can do is show them the costs, and hope for some 
>> common sense.  I've seen a lot of "lack of common sense" or any other 
>> sense ...
> 
> Maybe management just doesn't want to continue on a dead end street?
> Which Alpha and VMS clearly are.

What management should want is to get the job done.  If the current 
system is getting the job done, then what else matters?

> Migrate while it is still time left and you're not forced to do so.

Now, what does that mean?  I've read this drivel so many times.  It 
means nothing.  If anything, it should be easier, not harder, to convert 
in the future.  "Forced"???  Is something going to stop working on any 
specific date?  I think not.

"Troll" comes to mind when I read such.  Are you just another troll?

> That's a very valid concern which you can't easily measure in
> immediate hardware and software costs.

Oh, yes, I can measure it.  If you do something that is not needed to be 
done, then anything you spend is easily measured wasted money and effort.

> In addition, the replacement solution might offer more functionality
> than the legacy application.
> 

Indeed it might.  That would be part of the cost vs benefit analysis. 
It also "might" offer LESS functionally.  That would also be a good 
thing to have defined.