[Info-vax] Rethinking DECNET ?

[Hein RMS van den Heuvel]

On Monday, September 1, 2014 3:16:54 PM UTC-4, David Froble wrote:
> Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday, August 30, 2014 1:33:42 AM UTC-4, JF Mezei wrote:
> 
> >> Make DECNET native on IP. Get an IP port defined for DECNET, and then
> >> change NCP to have IP addresses instead of node/area numbers. Traffic
> 
> > Hi JFM,
> > Just curious,
> > How much money (order of magnitude, 100K$, 1M$, 10M$)
     .... Zero.


David> Now, you may feel that this type of put down is relevant.  It is NOT!

It is relevant (imho), and not intended to be personal. 
I respect Jean-François and we had several pleasant exchanges over the years.

Folks in this discussion group are trying to guide potential VMS development decision and that's great, but there should be money / real business behind it. 
All discussions and contributions here are from very well meaning folks. 
However, best I can tell many, if not most, of the contributions are from folks who have little to none actual buying, decision or influencing power.

Dirk> That is what Hein wanted to stress IMHO. 

alas, no. My comment was not about Decnet specifically but a hint/reminder to the relative significance of certain discussions here.

Myself I have personally invested thousands in OpenVMS, notably while an independent consultant 2005 - 2011. The company I work with now, has had $1M+ of OpenVMS software and services sales since 2011, and our customers are probably in the $10M+ space for OpenVMS related activities.

> If you cannot be just a bit more pleasant, then just STFU!
Hmmm...

Best regards,
Hein