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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 11/7/22 09:53, John Dallman wrote:
> 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.

I think you might be disturbed to find out that this is nothing
new.  :-)

bill