[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[calliet gérard]

Le 02/08/2021 à 15:07, Jan-Erik Söderholm a écrit :
> Den 2021-08-02 kl. 14:08, skrev Simon Clubley:
>> On 2021-08-02, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>>> Den 2021-08-02 kl. 02:12, skrev Simon Clubley:
>>>> Probably old news to some people here, but I've just seen that VSI
>>>> has a new CEO, Kevin Shaw, who is replacing Jim Janetos:
>>>>
>>>> https://vmssoftware.com/about/news/2021-07-09-key-managers/
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know anything about him and how much VMS background he has ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can't see that the technical background matters that much
>>> on that "level". As long as he is a good leader in general.
>>
>> You are correct Jan-Erik. It would have been more accurate for me
>> to say "DEC culture knowledge" instead of "VMS background".
>>
>> What I was really trying to ask is how much does he know about the
>> DEC culture so that he can understand what VSI's customers might
>> expect both of him and of VSI ?
>>
>> Simon.
>>
> 
> I hope he knows enough about the "cultures" from the 80s to
> avoid making the same mistakes.
> 
> I think that VSIs customers of today expects VSI to live
> up to standards of today, not the standards of the 80s.
I was not sure, Jan-erik, but it seems you are a little bit in some self 
depreciation.

We all know that there are been big mistakes in 80s, and big mistakes
from digital.

But Johan Gedda had a bet on VMS, because of VMS qualities. One of them 
is very simple: VMS survived. I don't know if you are Darwinist, but 
species who survive have special qualities. If you don't evaluate these 
qualities, or if you don't make them be at the center of your operation, 
you are not able to make them go on.

In the 80s there are been extraordinary good ideas, and also big 
mistakes. Often you can evaluate an idea because of its originality. Our 
new ceo could think about what made digital at same level of ibm in few 
years, for example, and it could be a good idea to search some 
transposition of the VMS good ideas of 80s to these days.

One of the wrost thing I heard last months was Mr Brown quoting Clair 
Grant who would have said "we are the same as others". If we were the 
same or we would be as apple, or we would be dead. We are neither. So we 
are a little bit different, and we have to level on it. Don't be self 
deprecate, don't be too ambitious, perhaps, just product adequate 
evaluations.

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