[Info-vax] The real problem that needs solving to grow VMS

[Dave Froble]

On 12/14/2022 8:59 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <tk9jug$12ar$1 at gioia.aioe.org>,
> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 11/2/2022 9:30 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>                            could you also answer why people would be
>>> willing to put the future of their company at risk by buying a product
>>> from a small vendor (VSI) that will stop working if that vendor goes bust ?
>>
>> If VSI goes bust - which there is no indication that it will - and
>> if there is noone picking up VMS - which seems unlikely if there
>> are companies willing to pay - and it falls unlucky at the
>> end of a license period and if the server is critical and if
>> they did not negotiate and got a forever license from VSI, then
>> it would be a problem.
>>
>> But that is a lot of if's.
>
> That _is_ a lot of if's, but still "what if?"s that need to be
> addressed, and none of them are relevant to Linux.  A small
> likelihood of catastrophic failure is still non-zero; why chance
> it when one need not?

Many can play the ""what if" game ...

Would we ever have left the caves, if some were willing to try something new, or 
in the case of VMS, something old?

You seem to think Linux is a better choice.  Fine.  But that doesn't make you 
right, or wrong.  Just different.

Bottom line, some of us like VMS.  The question is, why do you attempt to talk 
us out of it?

I might ask, "why chance Linux if one need not?"


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