[Info-vax] The ever unchanging VMS environment, was: Re: What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-10-06, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>
> The more y'all keep trying to avoid changing your application code and 
> avoiding changing the things that are broken, the harder you make it 
> for VSI to fix things, to improve the platform, to work to secure the 
> platform, and to work to address the requirements that new folks can or 
> will have.

Totally, utterly, 100% agree with this.

> I listened to folks at the boot camp try to shut down some 
> proposed cluster-related changes, and without even knowing what those 
> changes might bring them.   Without even knowing what those changes 
> were.    That approach is problematic.
>

Not this again; I thought we had got past the denial stage. :-(

Please tell me at least they were in the minority.

People, while you can control change in a number of areas, in other
areas, change is what is forced upon you by outside factors and this
is one of those latter areas.

Are people just wanting to see out the last few years to retirement
without having to learn any new skills (and once they retire they
won't care about VMS any more), or are they wanting to see a more
viable and modernised future VMS ?

Simon.

PS: Stephen, you have started to develop a British style talent
for understatement. :-)

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