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

[Dan Cross]

In article <tk1lng$1i5c$2 at gioia.aioe.org>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 11/3/2022 2:37 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> Note the question was _for a new installation_.
>> 
>> I can't imagine many new installations are reaching
>> for a VMS-only ERP package written in Basic.
>
>The end user would not care and usually doesn't even know
>what programming language the application is written in.

The IT managers better know what they're signing
themselves and their staff up for.  That's not a hard
concept.

>But they do care about OS. VMS today would be a hard sell,
>but the premise for all this discussion is that VSI get
>VMS made some sort of competitive.

I thought the premise of this discussion was that there
are things that VSI is going to have to do to make VMS
competitive that they don't seem to be doing (and in some
cases they seem to be doing the opposite), and a lot
of people are responding with arguments that haven't
made much sense in 30 years.

	- Dan C.