[Info-vax] DCL Syntax

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Friday, 31 August 2018 16:30:02 UTC+1, Bill Gunshannon  wrote:
> On 08/31/2018 10:37 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Now, what about the old VMS management station software?  Actually, is 
> > requiring a weendoze or other desktop for GUI management of VMS systems 
> > all that bad of an idea?  
> 
> I am sure there are many here who would say yes, especially if it
> required Windows.  :-)
> 
> >                           Not a major cost for the desktop.  I think the 
> > problem would be insuring that the interface to the desktop, the desktop 
> > part of the system, would always be the same as the command line based 
> > management.  Might be a whole bunch cheaper and easier than graphics on 
> > a VMS system.
> > 
> 
> And who is going to write and maintain this non-VMS software needed
> to administer VMS systems?  How do you decide which other OSes that
> offer desktops your going to support?  Or are you happy alienating
> some of the customer base?
> 
> bill

If I remember rightly, the traditional business model for stuff 
like management tools (e.g. multi system performance management 
tools, sometimes even multi vendor tools) was that GQ Bob got 
paid and the tool owners (Computer Associates?) didn't do any
development om the tools. But I could be misremembering.

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