[Info-vax] Do you (or someone you work with) sysman on Windows?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-05-25 15:49:03 +0000, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk said:

> Lots of words, no TLDR. Sorry.

That reads like somebody that has seen a long list of stupid problems 
and bad designs and bad decisions.  Lists like that are not uncommon in 
computing, particularly among practitioners that have been around for 
more than a few years.

What's often missing from those lists are ways to get out of those 
messes — mistakes happen, it's how you notice and react and resolve and 
move forward that's just as important as the mistakes.

In another way of looking at that litany of woe, what you've just 
posted looks like a phenomenal potential market for somebody to try to 
move into.  Whether that might be VSI or any of the other entities 
offering operating systems, I do not know.  Incrementally moving into 
parts of the markets you've described will involve easier mass 
deployments, repeatable deployments, remote and autonomous system and 
network configuration mechanisms, remote monitoring and logging and 
automated troubleshooting, and a variety of other improvements.  For 
VSI, this will involve substantial changes to VMS — to make VMS better 
and more capable, and to deprecate and to replace and to remove those 
parts which aren't needed or that just don't work in this era.



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