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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 08/22/2018 10:40 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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.

And yet it is probably the second largest OS in use today.  Go figure.

> 
> 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.

Tell that to IBM and Unisys who still succeed using that model for
their mainframe business.

> 
>> 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.

Extremely small niches remain regardless of which way the industry
goes.  Not a good example for this discussion.

bill