[Info-vax] Building for Customers, Revenue

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-09-13, Kerry Main <kerry.main at backtothefutureit.com> wrote:
>
> 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).
>

Actually WordPerfect works very nicely on VMS, including within a
VMS batch job. Makes the _automatic_ creation of letters to customers
direct from VMS easy.

BTW, before the change in my situation, I had been thinking about what
it could be replaced with if needed and I was looking at OpenOffice in
headless mode running on Linux.

Simon.

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