Re: Renaissance of VAX-VMS ?

From: JF Mezei (jfmezei.spamnot_at_istop.com)
Date: 01/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 05:11:13 -0500

Didier Morandi wrote:
> fine to me as I'm a reseller and I have probably like you a wife, children and a
> house.

OK, I can understand one not being sure about how many children he really has
:-) :-) :-)

But unless you have a very large harem, the word "probably" shouldn't apply to
whether you have a wife or not.

Now, if you are not sure about having a house or not, you should hire a good
notary who should be able to dig up all the paperwork to confirm to you.

:-) :-) :-) ;-) ;-)

Seriously, if you want to get HP France's attention, when you need to do is to
get your members to reveal to you how much they spend on HP gear/services per
year. You add up that information and then go to HP France and tell them that
X million euros of business comes from VAX-VMS and that those customers need
to be handled properly otherwise they will seek non-HP solutions because right
now they are unhappy with the way HP France is dealing with them.

The goal of making profits (or meeting analyst expectations) overrides
strategic goals to be good buddies with Intel or Microsoft. So when push comes
to shove and Carly needs to meet some profit targets, she will be forced to
put aside her devotion to Bill gates or Andy Grove to preserve the profits
generated by the necessary evils of her company (VMS for instance).

You need to convince the wintel drones at HP that omitting VMS from their
marketing, plans, documentation will result in loss of the very profits
necessary to subsidize their strategic wintel operation.

Palmer understood this near the very end. At first, he blamed anything for
the problems. But after years of weekly reorgs, he was forced to admit that it
was his active put down of VMS that had caused Digital's downfall. But it was
too late when he realised it and even though he may have stopped the "migrate
from VMS" ads, the damage had been done.

Compaq not only didn't learn from this, but Curly went one step further by
prematurely murdering Alpha. Compaq went down.

It isn't VMS that jinxes its onwers. It is the owners who invest mega money to
buy a product, and then cannabalise it instead of making that investment
generate the profits to pay for itself.

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