[Info-vax] OpenVMS Development Annoyances

[gérard Calliet]

Le 09/04/2019 à 17:17, Stephen Hoffman a écrit :
> On 2019-04-09 14:12:54 +0000, gérard Calliet said:
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>>> 🤦🏾‍♀️
>> I can't understand this english?
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> It's UTF-8.  It's an emoji.  Specifically, it's a face-palm emoji.
Thanks, now I understand why I doesn't understand.
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> The context, for those not running threaded:
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> On 2019-02-09 19:42:44 +0000, gérard Calliet said:
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>> Le 09/02/2019 à 20:14, Stephen Hoffman a écrit :
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>>> 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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