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

[David Wade]

On 07/11/2022 13:52, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 11/7/2022 8:41 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-11-06, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>> On 11/2/2022 9:23 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> You correctly talk about only small numbers being required to try VMS
>>>> compared to the industry as a whole.
>>>>
>>>> You have not yet talked about _why_ even those small numbers would be
>>>> persuaded to try VMS. IOW, you have not yet answered the question I 
>>>> asked
>>>> at the start of this thread.
>>>
>>> VMS is not new.  It's capabilities are well known and documented.  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?
>>>
>>
>> And now we are back to what is essentially my original question: In what
>> situation would VMS be considered "the best fit" for a new installation
>> these days ?
>>
>> Simon.
>>
> 
> I don't know any answer to that question, and not just for VMS.  What 
> would be the situation for any platform, OS, language, and such?  Any 
> such answer would belong to specific requirements for a task.
> 
> Do you have any answers for any specific OS?
> 
Certainly in UK Local government the rules to connect to the Public 
Sector Network (PSN) require that you use an up to date operating system 
and have a support contract.

This makes many of the free Linux systems, where per-incident support is 
not available, very expensive compared to windows. I think this is 
probably current:-

https://ubuntu.com/pricing/pro

so we had 2500 desktops which needed to be on a support contract, $25 
per desktop per year, comes to $50,000/year. With Microsoft we had per 
incident support...

.. and before you all tell me windows is horrid and unreliable, my 
experience of working in a 200 server/2000 desktop environment would 
suggest otherwise.

Dave