[Info-vax] Building for Customers, Revenue (was: Re: Bliss was Re: Learning VMS application programming)

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <lv1q7h$qg4$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> Computing was simpler back in the DEC VMS days.  Mainframes, 
> superminis, minis, and microcomputers, or however that market was 
> sliced up.
> 
> User expectations were much lower, and computer usage was far from ubiquitous.
> 
> Now?  Covering the market means products from mobile devices using 
> touch-based and voice APIs, to thousands-of-CPUs-NUMA boxes, to 
> massive-scale hosted (cloud) services.
> 
> Which is well beyond the old MicroVAX to VAX 9000 range.

Just yesterday, I bought a couple of 64-GB USB sticks.  (128 GB would 
have been possible as well.)
 
> Good luck with resolving the compromises and the packaging differences 
> that'd inherent in this wrist-to-cloud quest, too, 

I'd be happy with desktop-to-datacenter.  :-|

> Call back in five years or so, and we'll see how things look.

OK.

> VMS is exceedingly ill-suited for home users.  

Even I don't want to convert all home users to VMS.  (Well, I do, but I 
realize that it is unrealistic.)  I'm thinking of people who like VMS.

Let's have a poll: Who uses VMS exclusively for desktop stuff?  Who uses 
it whenever possible, using other systems only when something is not 
possible on VMS?  Who would like to do all their desktop stuff on VMS?