[Info-vax] Open Source on OpenVMS - A Progress Report

[Michael Kraemer]

Jan-Erik Söderholm schrieb:
> Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 
>> Jan-Erik Söderholm schrieb:
>>
>>> Such as trying
>>> to always use VMS based tools. 
>>
>>
>> If one can't use VMS for everyday work,
>> why bother with VMS at all?
>>
> 
> Because those who I work for are running VMS.
> That's what currently pays my "food in the table".

That's fine with me, of course.
But my comment was more along the line
that one can't accuse HP of not trying to expand VMS
beyond its current niche, if even the current
user base says they're satisfied with what they have.
That's not very logic, IMHO.
Of course it's fine that guys like you are able
to make their living on that niche, but this
doesn't help VMS as a whole.

> And they are defenitely not using VMS for "everyday
> work", if that implies common desktop "work". VMS runs
> the production, nothing else.
>