[Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was: Re: LMF Licence Generator Code

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 8/9/21 12:47 PM, chris wrote:
> On 08/09/21 17:19, chris wrote:
>> business headed,
> 
> Typo: business headed, should read, business model.
> 
> LMF type systems belong to a past age of greed, mistrust and
> assumptions about customer honesty and have no place in the
> modern age. One of the primary reasons why vax and vms was
> dumped by so many uni departments and businesses, but some never
> learn.

As someone who was there and fought against the removal of VMS from
academic circles, you are just plain wrong.  No one other than the
administrator knew what LMF was or what it did.  VMS went away from
academia because it was seen as old and not moving forward.  It was
legacy. (There's that word again!!) It was dropped at the same time
that other legacy items like COBOL and Fortran and Pascal (and, yes,
Ada) were left in the dust.


Even after it left academia the schools still used it administratively.
It left that market when the canned packages everyone was using (like
Banner) dropped support for it. You would have to ask them why they
decided to abandon VMS.  What does Oracle say about it??

bill