[Info-vax] relaunch or legacy

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/27/2022 4:37 PM, Gérard Calliet wrote:
> Le 27/01/2022 à 20:57, Simon Clubley a écrit :
>> On 2022-01-27, Gérard Calliet <gerard.calliet at pia-sofer.fr> wrote:
>>> But the most serious thing, which was structurally foreseeable, is the
>>> impoverishment of the Boston center, a founding engineering in the
>>> imbalance with the new effective center of decision and profit in
>>> Europe. The Boston offices have disappeared, the data center has been
>>> outsourced, and most of the key managers are non-VMSians. The Boston
>>> center is a victim of the same trend that took place before 2013: very
>>> high quality poses immediate profitability problems, and the trend is to
>>> go offshore to reduce costs. It is easier to invest in integration,
>>> service, which will be reconvertible in case of failure into external
>>> porting services (alliance with Sector7).
>>
>> Based on what I have read so far, I don't agree with your analysis of
>> the closing of the original VSI offices. As far as I see, VSI in the US
>> have just undertaken a relocation and just moved their systems to a
>> dedicated data centre. That bit I don't really have a problem with unless
>> there's more to this than I am seeing. Is there more to the relocation
>> of VSI in the US that I am not seeing ?

> I will give the links about the dedicated center. It is Century21, I 
> think. It is one of the company the chair man had. I saw the youtube 
> presenting the operation: "everything is fine with virtualisation, bla, 
> bla..." . Where are gone the strict operations of testing? I don't know.
> My problem is not about one fact, but about a conjunction of facts, 
> which seems to be a trend. And yes, as for everything, hypothesis. 
> Because we don't get any real information.

It is not common for companies to discuss the hosting of their
internal IT in public. In fact it is practically never happening.

>>> There is the problem that Digital had encountered: complex balancing
>>> between decision centers in the world. What we are seeing is a gradual
>>> underground takeover from the European center, closer to the investor,
>>> both by reducing resources and by appointing people close to the
>>> investor to take charge. Seen from Europe, the billing goes through the
>>> Teracloud entity for an officially American company, whose choice of
>>> managers seems to come from Europe. Thus the so-called "VSI" entity is
>>> really difficult to define, let alone its real strategies.
>>
>> However, the first part of this I don't like the sound of if it is true.
>>
>> Is it true, or is it just your impression of what is going on ?
> It is my interpretation. But how can be interpreted all the changes for 
> ceo? The question is who really has the power of decision? A plane where 
> the pilot is fantomatic, and where not any information is done to the 
> passenger about the destination, do you think you'll use it?

I would assume VSI works like any other company.

The owners (shareholders) elect a board that they think
will make the right decisions, the board (and the chair person)
tell CEO and senior management of the company what strategic
direction they want and CEO and senior management execute
based on that strategic direction.

>>> For the moment VSI is only organizing itself within the classic
>>> framework of operating a legacy system, which allows it to wait serenely
>>> for the end of VMS. One of the consequences of this situation is the
>>> inevitable reproduction of a conflict between old and new - nothing less
>>> innovative than the conflict between old and new -. This explains the
>>> chaotic competition between the Boston pole and the Melmo pole.
>>
>> I have not seen any reported examples of conflict going on here. Can you
>> give some specific examples ?

> I'm not part of VSI. But, for example it is not understandable the chief 
> of the engineering with not any VMS experience, placed here because of 
> his history with the european investor. Cannot we see here a non 
> official power fight?

As far as I can see then he has 25 years of experience
leading software development teams.

The fact that he has not worked with VMS before joining VSI
does not seem particular relevant to me. I do not expect
the VP of engineering to write any code and managing
engineers does not depend on the specific code. He probably
had to spend a few weeks learning about the tasks and teams,
but that is normal every time a company hires externally.

Arne