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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-09-13, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply <helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> wrote:
>
> I'd be happy with desktop-to-datacenter.  :-|
>

Desktop to the datacentre still exists today; but it's called Linux
instead of VMS.

>
> 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?
>

During (roughly) the 2005-2006 timeframe I had a real go at trying to
do just that for my own home use for all the interests I had developed;
it didn't take too long to realise it was a futile path. I had been
running Linux for the best part of a decade at that point and I gave up,
switched fully to Linux, and never looked back.

I posted a detailed list a few weeks ago of what I do at home using
Linux. You can totally forget about getting the vast majority of those
things working on VMS.

Simon.

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