[Info-vax] OpenVMS Development Annoyances

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-04-09 14:12:54 +0000, gérard Calliet said:

>> 
>> 🤦🏾‍♀️
> I can't understand this english?

It's UTF-8.  It's an emoji.  Specifically, it's a face-palm emoji.

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On 2019-02-09 19:42:44 +0000, gérard Calliet said:

> Le 09/02/2019 à 20:14, Stephen Hoffman a écrit :
>> 
>> And it's not going to be easy to catch up.  VSI needs newer folks and 
>> newer apps and newer to offset the inevitable losses.  Both around 
>> apps, and around the folks that have worked with OpenVMS through their 
>> careers and are now moving on or are retiring.  And the newer 
>> developers and newer ISV folks are going to be accustomed to current 
>> environments and tools; to IDEs and recent platforms and frameworks and 
>> open-source options, and commercial packages and databases and the rest.
> 
> How can you help? :)

The leadership here—marketing and communications, longer-term product 
strategy and product positioning, product development efforts, and 
related—can only and must reside at VSI.  Not with end-users.



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