[Info-vax] Rdb/x86

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-11-23, IanD <iloveopenvms at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I was making the point that if all these things were known then vsi could have been promoting this sort of stuff, even if unofficially
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> For example, look at how many people here, who are vms advocates and keep fairly well in the know about what's happening on vms, didn't really know the state of play with rdb on x86...
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> It's all fine to say 'of course' but assumptions don't make for sales or keep vms customers who are on fringe systems eyeing the door and potentially leaving
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> Risk drives everything and if the marketing arm of vsi is not getting the word out on every success and even potential success, then businesses will keep shedding vms to mitigate the risk that they are running on a dead platform
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> I've worked in at least 2 places now where vms has been marched out the door. 
> One place might have even kept vms but it was too late, by the time I heard of their plans and created a simple web interface to their existing rdb platform to show what could be done, their decision to retire vms had already been concluded at the board level and funding approved for the replacement system
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> By the time the technical people hear of platform decisions, other marketing departments have already got in and sold the business their solutions
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> Lead times of 12++ months is typical in large companies for platform decisions, so throwing information into the public arena late is potentially letting your competitors have a head start and they are already out there pushing their glossy brochures and vaporware to lock in future sales
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> I happen to think vsi could have said a lot more about rdb on x86 because from my perspective they actually didn't say anything at all

I have included Ian's comment in full as it deserves a second read as
Ian very clearly "gets it".

The above is a good example of exactly why VSI should be promoting,
in public, the fact that Rdb is now known to be actively being ported
to x86-64 VMS.

I've just checked the VSI website again and there's _still_ nothing
I can see in the news section about Rdb on x86-64 VMS.

Absolutely bloody pathetic. :-(

Simon.

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