[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Dave Froble]

On 8/2/2021 6:56 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 8/2/21 2:53 PM, Dave Froble wrote:

>> Well, you are not wrong.  If something else could replace VMS, then it
>> would already have done so years ago.
>>
>
> Uhh..  Dave...  Something did replace VMS.  Actually a lot of things
> replaced VMS.  Many of them were mistakes, but the fact is they did
> replace VMS.  Saw it first hand at the University I worked at for 25
> years.

Yes, VMS was replaced in many shops, but not all shops.  That's what I'm 
saying above.  Some shops just could not, or would not, move off VMS.

> On an interesting side note I read an article on LinkedIn today that
> talked about how moving to these pre-packaged systems like SAP (or, in
> the case of the University I worked at Banner) it becomes necessary to
> change the way you do business to match the package you bought rather
> than using an in house system designed to match the way you had been
> doing your business.  One more thing I said as long as 30 years ago.

Yes, SAP has ruined more than one business.  When one's business 
practices provides some "edge" that makes one successful, perhaps a 
Harvard Business School type might think it's possible to "go generic", 
which is why we need to "nuke" the HBS.


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