[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2018-02-12 kl. 23:18, skrev Stephen Hoffman:
> On 2018-02-10 04:18:23 +0000, DaveFroble said:
> 
>> Consider a mfg company, which is what Jan Erik has.  IT is a necessary 
>> expense.   Not directly something that produces income.
>>
>> The purpose of a mfg company is to produce goods, which are sold, thus 
>> creating profits.
>>
>> Now, if, and that is a valid question, the IT system is meeting the 
>> company's requirements, why would the company waste money to replace 
>> their IT system?  As requirements change, the system(s) can be modified 
>> to reflect changing requirements.  But rarely, if ever, will things 
>> change so much that the current IT system is so far away from 
>> requirements.  It just doesn't happen.
>>
>> So, replacement of the entire system just isn't going to happen.
> 
> When next the manufacturing line gets rebuilt, the folks will be looking 
> for upgrades and replacements.

Funny seeing other speculating about an environment they know very
little about (apart from that it currently uses VMS)... :-)

Now, there are something like 15-20 lines, not one line. We have
two projects right now for one completely new assembly line and one
upgraded line. Both will use the current VMS based support system

Any replacement of the support system will run as a separate project.


> In short: don't look to existing sites for innovative suggestions...

Right...