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

[rejoc]

On 12/15/2022 3:28 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> Yeah, if you got over 40 years of development of a product that does 
> exactly what it's intended to do, you should just seriously consider 
> pitching it, huh?
> 
In your case, you sell a solution. It can be seen as an appliance or 
another VM you run in your virtualized environment.
If other systems in the company can interact (get/send data to it) with 
it and it integrates with the monitoring systems of the company, nobody 
needs to know that VMS is behind the scene. Of course it needs to pass 
all the security tests that any appliance must pass.

You'll maintain this "appliance". Your customer will not have to 
interact with the OS (do you interact with the OS of your switches ou 
routers ?)

Your customer won't even know that VSI exists.
Actually, it was the same 25+ years ago with some third party software 
on VAX/AXP. Digital did not know the customers and had a very biased 
view of the installed base.