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

[Dave Froble]

On 8/22/2018 10:20 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 8/22/2018 12:21 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 8/21/2018 10:41 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> But the companies that can change make money and those
>>> that are stuck in the old ways goes bankrupt.
>>
>> Ah, citation, please?  That's a rather interesting statement.  Not
>> sure I'm believing it.
>
> Kodak believed in real film not digital images.

That's not "old ways", that's displaced product.  I seem to recall some 
Kodak digital cameras.  Perhaps it was the ultra cheap products from 
China and such that did in Kodak?

> DEC believed in mini-computers not Unix and PC's.

DEC sold microCPU based systems.  C-VAX, N-VAX, Alpha, etc.
DEC sold PCs.
Unix sucks.

Yes, it was the "old ways" that caused DEC's decline.  One of the 
biggest problems was the huge service organization and other such.  When 
computers sold for big bucks, there was funds for the overhead.  That 
definitely changed.

> Nokia believed in phones with Symbian and real keyboard not something
> iPhone like.
>
> Etc.
>
> I guess you can say that is is more common for those not changing to
> be bought by someone changing (for cents on the dollar) than to
> literally go bankrupt.

That hasn't happened, at least for that reason, to any of my past customers.