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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/4/2022 10:50 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
> 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.

I think everybody agrees that VMS needs to have a significant
number of improvements before it becomes some sort of
competitive in the market for new customers.

But my point is that when VMS pass all the basic checks,
then some will pick it - I do not consider it necessary
to have a super killer feature that only VMS have to make it
sell.

Arne