[Info-vax] Bliss was Re: Learning VMS application programming

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2014-09-13 12:23:
> In article <lv01mf$5ou$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
> <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>
>> The major problem with that is that there is no market with
>> paying customers waiting for a local brower running in VMS.
>
> Maybe not now.  Maybe if VSI takes off, there will be more of a market.

Define "market".
An OpenVMS desktop market? No.
A (real) market asking for an OpenVMS browser? Probably no.

>
>> Far better to run the browser in your desktop environment
>> and let VMS serve the content.
>
> But then one needs a desktop environment in addition to VMS.

If you have a desktop environment at all, it is already in
additon to VMS today (and have been for the last decade,
for anyone not beeing a die-hard hobbysit).

OpenVMS has been totaly irrelevant as a professional desktop
environment since the PC become popular many years ago.

> Not everyone has that, or wants that.

A handfull of hobbyists doesn't make a "market".

Jan-Erik.