[Info-vax] A possible platform for VMS?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-03-01 17:41:52 +0000, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk said:

> Windows may well be acceptable for lots of outfits. VMS was in that 
> position once, but times changed.

Windows solves the problems — bugs and all — that a whole lot of folks have.

Most folks buy computer systems to do work, and security is secondary 
to that, after all.

> The same could happen to MS. Much

And already has, if you include mobile and tablet devices in the 
population of client devices in use.

> as it happened to Apple (and then a miracle occured).

A whole lot of focus, a whole lot of work on products, and a whole lot of "no".

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh_9Wwx43r4>.

More than a little of what's been discussed here in comp.os.vms will be 
getting a "no" from VSI, too.

> At the risk of getting repetitive again, one size does not necessarily 
> fit all (not in a sensible world anyway).

At the risk of being entirely too repetitive myself, please provide a 
better alternative.


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