[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/13/18 9:53 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> To initiate a vendor-specific degree-granting program or a trade school
>> job-training program, most any school is going to want more than media
>> and download codes and a rack of free servers.  Servers that'll
>> probably quickly be running Linux too, but I digress.  The folks
>> responsible for the program are going to want funding for staff, and
>> installation and hardware support, and sundries.
> 
> Right.  You're not going to get that, you can't even hope for that.
> 
> What you CAN hope for is for colleges to use VMS in an operating systems
> class for comparison purposes... set up a small cluster of generic hardware
> to run VMS one day, Linux the next day, maybe Windows the day after that.

Wishful thinking.  The machines used in University level courses do
not jump around from one OS to another at the whim of some professor.
I had boxes running Windows, boxes running Linux, boxes running BSD
and sometimes boxes running more obscure OSes for special projects.
They aren't interested in comparing anything to VMS because there is
no one left who knows what VMS is.  There are no textbooks that even
mention it.

Like the HP educational program there are too many people who
have no experience or understanding of just how an academic
CS department works trying to make plans for them.  If I
couldn't keep VMS in a department that already had hardware,
licenses and operational systems how can you possibly expect
people who have never used it, seen it or even heard of it
to suddenly decide to put out the expense and effort needed
to incorporate it into an Operating Systems Course?

bill