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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-11-07, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>
> I think you're leaving out one important step here.
>
> Someone at some point (should) always ask: Why did it fail.
> And then there comes the analysis of the why, and in there will be the 
> question of the choice of platform, and then it will be recognized that 
> it was the same platform everyone else chose, so that was/is not the 
> problem. Something else is.
>
> If someone gets fired, it is in the end not because of the choice of 
> platform in this case then.
>
> However, if they picked VMS, and it fails for whatever reason, the 
> retrospect will reach the point of the decision of platform, and 
> everyone will recognized it was not the same platform as everyone else 
> chose, and the digging will stop there, and the guy who made the call 
> for VMS is let go.
>
> Even if you think it should be otherwise.
>

And even better, the person whose responsibility it is to choose between
(say) Linux and VMS, knows all of the above in _advance_ of making this
decision and will be thinking of this while they are making their decision.

That's the barrier in the mind of the person making this decision you need
to smash through before they will even _consider_ VMS instead of "good old
and known" Linux.

Simon.

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