[Info-vax] Where to locate software

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-06-10 18:03:16 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> Stephen likes to talk about the large internet focused companies with a 
> requirement for massive amounts of automation and web based stuff...

If by "large", you mean more than a half-dozen or so servers involved, 
sure.   OpenVMS servers are installed one at a time.   Managed one at a 
time.   Upgraded one at a time.    Apps are stacked one at a time.   
Startups and shutdowns are edited one at a time.   That doesn't scale 
at all well.

> What you bring to the table is detailed real-world knowledge of actual 
> computing business requirements in a different type of company.

Where familiarity and comfort falls flat is where somebody else brings 
in different tools or different approaches or a different platform, and 
changes the landscape and the competition.  Whether that's the ability 
to charge less, or to have better user interfaces or features, or 
whether the platform is much less expensive to install or deploy or 
upgrade, or where the folks can respond more quickly to requests or 
updates or changes, etc.



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