[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

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Le 02/08/2021 à 16:09, Arne Vajhøj a écrit :
> On 8/2/2021 8:08 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 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 ?
> 
> The 1975 - 1995 era is not coming back.
> 
> The IT world is very different today and the it seems better that the
> new CEO have the right culture for the future than of the past.
> 
> He needs to have:
> - general leadership capabilities in a technology company of VSI size
> - broad understanding of the IT industry and strategic directions
> - understanding of the type of customers that use VMS today and the
>    type of customers that may switch to VMS within the next decade if
>    everything goes well
> 
> VMS knowledge and DEC 35 years ago knowledge seems irrelevant.
> 
> Arne
> 
> 
> 
The world you didn't notice is "transposition". I'm not sufficiently 
ignorant to think the 80s and now are the same thing.

But I do think essential issues are generaly appearing and re-appearing 
as cycles. Example: one day we "concentrate", after that we 
"distribute", and after that we "concentrate". The "new" concept of edge 
computing, for example, which says "the power of computation has to be 
near the place the information is produced", is in the category of 
"distribute" - and perhaps Atom and VMS and edge computing is a real 
future for VMS -. The hyper data center for cloud are in the category of 
"concentrate"...

The ideas we have to extract of our experiences is the way, in specific 
contexts, production of good concepts had emerged. Which explains how 
and why systems survive and others die.

To be able to do that, you need a general culture AND a very acute 
knowledge of the specific system you work for. So: the question of Simon 
- which you mention for you as the third one  - seems to me the 
important one.

Because when you choose a ceo, you don't choose a plumer, and not an 
ignorant of IT industry, the question from Simon remains for me the one 
which makes the difference.



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