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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/7/2018 1:15 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

I think there are two problems:
* the number of applications available has shrunk
   dramatically
* a good chunk of what is available is free open source
   where no one has the incentive to request it to be added

Arne