[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[johnson.eric at gmail.com]

On Monday, December 17, 2018 at 11:40:18 AM UTC-5, gérard Calliet wrote:

> For sure there is all day new things, and it is good. But speaking about 
> VMS only like an "old" thing is absurd.

My primary point is - its important for _you_ and everyone here to get
way more exposure to these new things. There is a lot of insularity here.
Things are very stale on VMS - and this staleness is contagious.

> You didn't mention xslt programming and scala, the 2 I do like and 
> used... on VMS.

Great! Ideally you have also tried things that are _not_ on VMS. Yes?
But I continue to get the sense that you don't wander too far off the
farm.

> I agree. But we are also in an era where there are less and less OS's 
> and it is not a good thing.

I'm less sure of that. I think the feature sets that we need from an
OS as such is pretty well set - and we have many (separate from VMS)
that already get the job done. In fact, we probably still have a few too
many! NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD for example.

The meat of problem solving with computers no longer sits in the OS.
It's everywhere else. It's why the feature set in the OSes are 
effectively converging. It makes sense since very little should
sit in kernel space - and everything else should be pushed out
into user land.

EJ