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

[chris]

On 08/09/21 20:16, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
>

I guess books have been written on that subject, but the OS market
has far more choices now than in the past. Any OS trying to make
headway needs to have as few encumbrances as possible and be simple
to get started with. Just download, install and go, ideally. If it
looks like hard work, people will go elsewhere...