[Info-vax] inertia or fundamentals about langages?

[Forster, Michael]

Respectfully, many of us do not have a choice as to whether to modernize. Either because of vendor or vendors or site/employer decisions, and sometimes due to a combination of both. As an employee or consultant or contractor, we have the decision as to stay or go. This is perhaps based on our personal goal or aspirations.

Michael Forster
Enterprise Storage and IDX Architect | Information Services
Medical College of Wisconsin
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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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