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

[John Dallman]

In article <tk9oe1$3csgi$1 at dont-email.me>, davef at tsoft-inc.com (Dave
Froble) wrote:

> VMS is not new.It's capabilities are well known and documented.  

Its capabilities are not well-known to most people working in IT this
year, and actually reading documentation is deeply unfashionable. 

> If a person is competent, and VMS best fits the needs, then choose 
> VMS.  If VMS is the best fit, and not chosen, that again goes back 
> to "competent", right?

I think you might be disturbed by the level of competence shown by many
IT decision makers these days. I have been on calls where product
architects demanded the ability to run x86-64 Linux Docker containers on
SPARC Solaris, and didn't know what the architecture problem was with
that. 

John