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On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 7:49:53 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-03-06, David Turner <dtu... at islandco.com> wrote: 
> > Really? 
> > There must be over 5 Million IT Managers globally who only take care of 
> > Windows based servers 
> > I would NOT trust any one of them to take care of/manage an Openvms server 
> > Period. 
> > Believe me, we deal with a lot of companies who fired, or lost (normally 
> > due to retirement or even.... death!) their OpenVMS IT manager. 
> > These people hire replacements straight out of college (or not) and rely 
> > on their Windows expertise. 
> > They know NOTHING about VMS. Even most Linux people now know very little 
> > about other operating systems, outside of Windows or MAC OS 
> >
> How many VMS people know about z/OS ? 
> 
> You have just made an argument (in the eyes of management at least) 
> to get rid of those "strange" VMS boxes and replace them with boxes 
> that everyone knows how to manage and write software for. 
> 
> z/OS has some unique features you can discuss with any management 
> thinking about getting rid of z/OS. What would you say to that same 
> management when the discussion turns to VMS ?
> Simon. 
> 

Yep.  Easy to manage, needs little management, doesn't fail.  Need more??

With moving to hardware emulated environments, the biggest complaints come from the underlying OS having issues, NOT OpenVMS.

Strange...