[geeks] just to stir things up, a few predictions

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Sun Oct 24 11:58:06 CDT 2004


> > > Seriously, VMS has some areas which are better, but a ton which are
> > > definitely not better.
> > 
> > VMS has a ton of areas that are definitely better.
> 
> ...and tons that aren't.

The number that aren't is smaller than the number that are.

> > > VMS, now all but dead, is still being stabbed continously by its
> > > adoptive parents.
> > 
> > You are wrong here.  HP is spending a lot of money on migrating VMS to
> > Itanium and is making a lot of money selling VMS.  There are companies
> > that are migrating to VMS (from Window and/or UNIX).
> 
> Then why are the VMS shops complaining so much?
>
> Or is it just left over venom and worry from the past?

That's most of it.
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman at dittman.net



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