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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 08/22/2018 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.
> 
> DEC believed in mini-computers not Unix and PC's.
> 
> Nokia believed in phones with Symbian and real keyboard not something 
> iPhone like.
> 
> Etc.
> 

VMS believed that the users didn't want a GUI but were happy with a
clunky CLI.

> 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.
> 

Exactly.

bill