[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 20:31:08 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 1/6/2024 12:22 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 00:10:26 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>
>>> Some like to blame MS for what happened. But the project execution
>>> does not seem attractive to follow.
>> 
>> It saved money over all. That was one of the main points of the
>> exercise.
> 
> The bottom line was that the chosen Linux & OOo/LO strategy had 11
> million Euro lower cost than the Windows & MSO strategy.

That is what “saving money” means, does it not.

> But the assumption was that staff and end user training cost was the
> same for doing the switch as for just upgrading the MS solution.

Given the major, disruptive changes that tend to happen between versions 
of Microsoft’s software, that kind of thing sounds entirely reasonable. 
Particularly since you have more control over UI changes on the Linux 
side. They created their own “LiMux” distro, as I recall, as part of the 
implementation.

> And the software creation including the approx. 65000 lines of code
> (mostly Java) for WollMux is set to zero.

Again, presumably just equivalent to similar software development that 
would have had to be done on Windows anyway. And with inferior Windows 
tools, to boot.