[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/14/2018 9:57 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/14/18 9:48 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/14/2018 9:11 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 12/14/18 2:21 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>> In article <g7g5e4F3t1mU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
>>>> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>> It did not help keep VMS
>>>>> around Universities it was already at and certainly didn't
>>>>> bring it into new locations.  Trust me, I know.  I fought
>>>>> that battle until finally being told the equipment had to be
>>>>> removed.
>>>>
>>>> Back in the days of DECcampus, DEC salesdroids were telling 
>>>> universities
>>>> that unix was the future.
>>>
>>> VMS replaced IBM in the University data center.  Unix did not
>>> replace VMS, Windows did.
>>
>> University administrative IT went Windows like everybody else.
>>
>> But first Unix and later Linux took over large part of
>> CS and natural sciences for both research and teaching.
>>
> 
> And, why do you think that happened?  And if you think DEC/COMPAQ/HP
> was visiting Department Chairs and convincing them, you are very
> mistaken.  Academia drives the bus, they don't ride in the back.
> 
> And, again, it was applications that drove this to a large extent.
> We had a Professor get an Alpha in the early days.  Quickly learned
> there were not only no usable (for his research) applications on
> VMS but also not on Windows.  Thus, he moved to Linux.

Likely.

I did not comment on the why.

I was just pointing out that the claim that universities went
to Windows was wrong.

Arne