[Info-vax] [From VSI website] VSI Announces a Strategic Partnership with Sector 7

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-01-28, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> 
>> It was absolutely pathetic that VSI couldn't even put an announcement
>> on their front page and in their news section about Oracle committing
>> to Rdb on x86-64 VMS.
>
> The problem is still that VSI can't commit to anything on behalf
> of Oracle - and the people in Oracle that can formally commit
> for Oracle are probably not that interested in VMS.
>

I was referring to the point several months ago when it became public
knowledge that Rdb was been ported to x86-64 VMS.

Don't forget that was major news to a number of people here who until
then only suspected that it was "probably" been ported to x86-64 VMS
but there was no public confirmation.

Ignoring the fact that it should have been old news to _everyone_ in
the VMS community, then the moment Oracle made a public statement, VSI
should have been pushing that in public as a confidence booster to
everyone in the VMS community, including those who will never use Rdb.

Instead VSI said nothing in public, but was happy recently to publish
a partnership with a vendor where part of that (according to the vendor)
is helping to move people away from Rdb.

You need to give the managers of the technical people confidence to
commit to VSI and an ongoing public campaign from VSI on many fronts
is a required part of that.

Many of those managers don't really care about VMS but they do care
about losing their jobs if they make the wrong decision so it is VSI's
job to create the impression in those managers that staying with VSI
is the correct decision instead of those managers deciding to port
away from VMS.

Simon.

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