[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/2/2021 9:46 AM, calliet gérard wrote:
> 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:
>>>> 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 ?
>>
>> 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.

> 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.

VMS has survived.

But I would not say that is thriving.

> 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.

I don't think what worked in the 80's will work today.

Heck - what worked in the 80's did not even work in the late 90's!

Arne