[Info-vax] Rethinking DECNET ?

[David Froble]

Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
> 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

The way you attempted to make your point, which I actually agree with, 
would be like JF asking how much you spent on Attunity products in the 
last 10 years ....

Relevant ?