[Info-vax] openvms.org/openvmsnews.com

[gérard Calliet]

Le 20/05/2019 à 07:44, Mark Daniel a écrit :
> On 20/5/19 11:22 am, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 8< snip 8<
>> It looks like openvms.org expires in a couple of months and IMHO,
>> openvms.org would be a good domain name for VSI to own.
> 
> +1
> 
>> Simon.
> 
No. .org is not .com

Confusion between general association and business is not a good thing.

For sure you think like VSI marketing, who thinks like HPE, HP, Compaq, 
and (not Ken Olsen) DEC had thought. Is it necessary to develop about 
the fact VMS could have died because they had wrong ideas about 
specificity of a business for a computer ecosystem?

During the time DEC and VMS were dying, business around Unix, Linux, 
Open Source, internet became huge. In this world they didn't confuse 
between .org and .com, and they understood that pure centralisation is 
totally wrong.

Narrowing a narrow business seems to be the sentence shared by a lot of 
VMS professionals and by VSI itself. VSI as the "clearing house" 
(everything is going by our hands), .org property of VSI, etc,...

I had always been surprised how in the "free world" there is in a lot of 
companies a strong culture of centralism, bureaucraty by which concepts 
the "free world" always criticized the russian empire. And I am more 
surprized VSI seems to organize its business as if it was still the DEC 
empire, and also how a lot of VMS friends think that this empire has to 
be or is still alive.

I'm just french and don't know a lot of america. And I do love Est side 
as west side. And I do respect MIT as Stanford. But it seems to me that 
California networks could be better for VMS now than old style world 
wide empires, with their humble parishioners.


Gérard Calliet