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[gérard Calliet]

Le 17/08/2020 à 15:56, El SysMan a écrit :
>> The only chance for VMS is to rebuild its ecosystem with new paradigms,
>> and to build on its core values by assessing how interesting they are in
>> the period.
> 
> Excellent!
> By recruiting new bigots ?! Pay VSI for license and become by members of "ecosystem" ?
> 
Bigot-ism is part of the problem. We are the users, You are the 
Always-in-truth Company. Which is the corollary of "everything is 
aknowledged by the majority business is The Real".
The counter-theorems being: "the majority business trend killed VMS", 
"the successfull ecosystems are collaborative".

But yes I do think nethertheless that the VMS ecosystem exists. And the 
Community License is the beginning of relaunch of a collaborative 
community (you don't have to pay for it).

The core values of VMS are:
- LOCALITY
- CONTINUITY
- MAINTENABILITY

The 2 first can be summarized by the genial idea of the founders: 
mini-computing. (departemental computing, the computer is near its use, 
and cannot stop, clustering is to scale and garanty continuity).
The 3rd is a consequence of the 2 first.

These values are quite the opposite of the main stream of today:
- decoralate everything from everything by all ways of abstraction, 
delocalize (cloud),
- reinvent the wheel as many times as it is for good profit,
- distant and global managering.

Not to say VMS is good, new world is bad. Just to say they are quite 
different. And have to be supported with marketing, training, 
development, community management different.

The way VMS is in technical revival is awesome. The way it is 
distributed and announced, the way VSI and the community does'nt 
constitute as a collaborating ecosystem are making the boat in danger.

The astounding situation here is that the whole world is now thinking 
about return to more locality, to think about sustanibility, to critic a 
modernity which forgets its roots, VMS is just totally synchronous with 
that... and we sell it as the new gadget of Mr Steve Jobs.