[Info-vax] Building for Customers, Revenue

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Saturday, 13 September 2014 22:03:05 UTC+1, Stephen Hoffman  wrote:
> On 2014-09-13 20:19:54 +0000, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk said:
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> > Im the generic case in present times that sounds rather more like the 
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> > territory of something like SAP's shop floor interfaces, or maybe 
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> > something like Cincom's MRP package. Etc.
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> VSI is a provider of operating systems and not ones particularly in in 
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> the shop floor market (any more), unless VSI is going to go vertical 
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> with some of their product offerings, and/or unless VSI also got and 
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> wants to port and to invest in BASEstar...   As they're just getting 
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> going, Poulson and then x86-64 are undoubtedly going to be the primary 
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> VSI projects, and probably some work on other core projects and 
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> products, too.
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> In general, VSI must provide a platform that's more profitable for a 
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> third-party vendor or integrator to use -- easier to use and/or cheaper 
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> to buy and/or cheaper to maintain and/or faster and/or more economical, 
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> etc -- and allowing the third-party vendors and -- where they're still 
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> doing their own technical work -- the end-users to build and benefit and 
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> to profit.  VSI has to make the case that VMS is better and more 
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> valuable and more profitable than Linux, BSD, Windows Embedded or 
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> whatever the third-party vendors are presently using, and better by 
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> enough to warrant the effort involved in porting.
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> After the Boot Camp, we'll have a much better idea of where VSI is 
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> investing for the next several years.  Right now, they probably want 
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> and need to get Poulson and x86-64 out the door.
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> Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC

"VSI must provide a platform that's more profitable for a
third-party vendor or integrator to use"

Exactly.

Desktops would likely be hard work to develop and hard work to sell
(certainly for the foreseeable future).

Enterprise apps themselvea are also not something for VSI to develop.

But nuVMS as *a platform for* enterprise-class apps, as an alternative
to Windows, for the kind of stuff whose default home frequently used
to be VMS anyway? Might have some scope, hopefully worth a quick look.

Have a lot of fun.