[Info-vax] Rdb/x86

[Marc Van Dyck]

Simon Clubley formulated on Friday :
>
> Many people around here would make excellent VSI marketing employees.
> That is not a good thing BTW.
>
> The reason why people are commenting about (the lack of) VSI marketing
> is because I suspect they can see the same bigger picture that I can.
>
> After years of broken promises about when x86-64 VMS would become
> available, big things are finally starting to happen in the x86-64 VMS
> world, and VSI should be shouting that out loud to anyone who will
> listen.
>
> VSI should be actively continuing to keep the idea of VMS as a still
> viable choice in the minds of people and when something like this comes
> along which shows that, after years of broken promises, x86-64 VMS is
> _finally_ almost here, VSI should be telling everyone about it as soon
> as they are allowed to (which at the latest is when Oracle did their
> first public presentation on it).
>

This passivity of VSI regarding ISV applications is certainly not
limited to RDB... We hear absolutely nothing from VSI about ISVs who
have committed (or not) to port their product to VMS on X86, and for
people like me who are (or, better said, were) actively preparing the
migration, this is a real pain in the neck. When you are using products
like enterprise schedulers, managed file transfer tools, and messaging
products, which are all multi-platform by essence, knowing that your
tool of choice will be supported (or not) on your target platform is
essential information. And here we're left completely in the dark.

I start thinking that VSI, run mainly by ex-Digital people, make the
sames mistakes that Digital did in the past, i.e. focus on technology
only and forget about everything else. We all know how it ended.

-- 
Marc Van Dyck