[Info-vax] inertia or fundamentals about langages?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/23/2019 12:08 PM, gérard Calliet wrote:
> Le 23/05/2019 à 14:10, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk a écrit :
>> Companies
>> such as NI are also helped by the fact that their community is
>> probably more engineering-oriented than the commodity
>> fashion victims in so many other sectors now considered to be "IT".

> Agreed.
> 
> Is VMS pure engineering-oriented, more engineering-oriented than others, 
> non-ingineering-oriented is perhaps a very good question.

There is obviously a difference between consumer products
(desktops, phones etc.) and business products (servers etc.).

If one want to sell a billion copies of an OS, then assuming
users has a solid understanding of how an operating systems
works is not realistic.

Servers are different. But even within servers there are
differences.

Some may focus a lot on senior management approving
the purchases - solid arguments why it will reduce
cost, a nice GUI interface that is understandable
for everyone etc..

Other may focus a lot on the everyday users
(operations, developers) - showing them that it
will make their job easier.

The third approach is to focus on doing something
really technically advanced and hope that somebody
will be impressed.

Arne