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

[John Dallman]

In article <tll90k$cotm$1 at dont-email.me>, davef at tsoft-inc.com (Dave
Froble) wrote:
> On 11/23/2022 8:11 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> > It doesn't. David's problem is a normal transaction based problem 
> > with issuing and managing items, but with the added complexity that 
> > the part number can change on a regular basis. Supersessions and 
> > supersession loops are part of normal parts management and the
> > surprise is not the problem, but the fact the vendors his customers
> > are talking to can't handle them.
> Some of the younger people in IT seem to lack understanding of some 
> fundamentals.

Many of them are taught about relational databases as some kind of holy
writ, the answer to everything that reality has to adjust to. The
original promoters of relational databases tended to do that, and their
ideas have been uncritically accepted. 

John