[Info-vax] Should VSI create a modern day VMS applications book ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-08-07, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/06/2018 09:05 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> In the distant past, DEC used to create application books which
>> listed the various third party applications available for the
>> DEC operating systems.
>> 
>> Is it worthwhile for VSI to create a modern day version of
>> these books either as a PDF book or as an interactive website ?
>> 
>> If worthwhile, I don't see this as being a massive resource hog
>> for VSI after the infrastructure is in place as they would mainly
>> collect submissions filed by those same third party vendors.
>> 
>
> I doubt there would be enough pages to be worth printing.

Judging by the total lack of responses I suspect you are correct
as I now suspect people around here privately think that as well.

> Pretty sad to look at the old books (yes, I have them on
> the bookshelf directly behind me) and see two volumes for
> the PDP-11 in 1985, two volumes for the VAX in 1986 and
> a few years later after the demise of the VAX the VMS
> Source Book is one volume less than half the size of
> one of the previous volumes.
>

In that case, I think this, and the lack of responses, shows the
ongoing decline in the VMS market share and that the majority of
remaining VMS applications are probably in-house custom developed
applications.

Oh well. It was just an idea.

Simon.

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