[Info-vax] inertia or fundamentals about langages?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-05-21 18:30:48 +0000, gérard Calliet said:

> ...you don't save your concept of inertia for VSI ; this concep is a 
> lot more non efficient for the future of VSI ; I didn't say thinking 
> the right way about fundamental errors about porting will be the unique 
> business for VSI ; I just evaluate the meaning of the site we will not 
> port outside and which are now a major part of the VSI business ; no 
> the major part now of the VSI business is not made of lazy melancholics 
> ; it is made of clever professional who know a lot about fundamentals 
> in computer science ; and because they are clever lasting on VMS 
> they'll prove intrinsic value of VMS ; and because of that VSI business 
> will develop.

"The inertia of the installed base is the future of VSI, and for the 
foreseeable future" is shorter.

Inertia has nothing to do with being clever.

Inertia has to do with staff and spending priorities; on spending on a 
port, or on other work.

And folks that are still running V5.5-2H4—clever or not, locally 
appropriate or not—are not part of the future of VSI OpenVMS.

Not until they decide to spend on upgrades to newer OpenVMS versions, 
on OpenVMS support, and eventually on porting their apps and 
environments to OpenVMS x86-64.

Inertia also arises with clever folks that don't challenge themselves 
to learn new-to-them tools and new-to-them platforms, but that's fodder 
for another discussion or three.


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