[Info-vax] Building for Customers, Revenue

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
> Jan-Erik Soderholm
> Sent: 13-Sep-14 11:45 AM
> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Building for Customers, Revenue
> 
> Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2014-09-13 16:31:
> > In article <lv1jr9$ecd$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
> > <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> >
> >> Best case and assuming a massive budget for development, that's
> most of
> >> a decade of very intensive work to bring the server features forward
> to
> >> what will then be current, and probably twice that effort would need
> to
> >> be invested to create a viable desktop and probably a desktop that
> >> too few folks would want.
> >
> > How would the effort compare to the effort of porting to x86?
> >
> 
> The difference is that a port to x86 is actualy asked for.
> That is, there is a *market*. There isn't for "desktop VMS".
> Never will be.
> 
> 
> >
> > I don't think that VSI should compete against "regular" desktops, but
> > rather offer enough desktop support so that VMS folks don't have to
> run
> > something else just for desktop stuff.
> 
> There will *never* be a VMS desktop that even comes close
> to a current Windows/Apple PC/laptop. Heck, even Linux have
> a hard time competeting even with the wast amount of effort
> put into it.
> 
> This is not where I'd want *my* licens money to go.
> 

Never say never. 

That's one lesson we should always be thinking about .. same was said 
for Wordperfect ever being replaced by anything or "Apple is dead" 
(remember Jobs had to be brought back to save Apple) or "everyone
has an iphone - who can ever challenge that?" (enter Samsung).

What might be interesting from a OpenVMS futures perspective is 
the future of thin client computing or VDI as the industry now calls
this.  

While not a replacement for fat client PC's, there might be a future 
with OpenVMS acting as a secure client option using thin client
technologies.

Lots of potential options for future consideration.

Regards,

Kerry Main
Back to the Future IT Inc.
 .. Learning from the past to plan the future

Kerry dot main at backtothefutureit dot com