[Info-vax] Building for Customers, Revenue

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Paul Sture wrote 2014-09-15 21:44:
> On 2014-09-15, Shark8 <OneWingedShark at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9/15/2014 6:24 AM, koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler)
>> wrote:
>>>      I have never used VMS exclusively for desktop stuff.
>>>
>>>      The majority of my VMS work is desktop stuff, and I use it whenever
>>>      possible, which means whenever my customer doesn't demand something
>>>      else.
>>>
>>>      I'd love to do all my desktop stuff on VMS again.
>>>
>>
>> Customer demands can be a funny thing; most of the time they really
>> don't care about the implementation so long as it works and works as
>> intended [as opposed to directed, but that is another rant] -- yet, it
>> is not entirely uncommon that the client demand something like C# or
>> Java [w/o reason].
>
> Back in the mid-90s a relative in sales management was telling me about
> the system he was tasked to specify and implement for a 1400 person sales
> force.  When I asked what development tools were being used his answer was
>
>       "C++ of course"
>
> It was the "of course" that rankled with me.  No hint of an evaluation of
> alternate tools.
>
> P.S. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when a few years later he told
> me that the shiny new system developed circa 1996 wasn't Y2K compliant.
>

Yes, intersting and a bit funny. But it has very little to
do with desktop tools and environments.

Heck, I had problem cooperating with my customer when I during
a couple of years tried to use OpenOffice. Last year I gave up
and got me a MS Office 365 subscription. Not only are the tools
as such better and "smarter" then OO, cooperation with the
customer also works better now. Win-win... :-)

The though of VMS based desktop applications make me laugh.

Jan-Erik.