Re: Alternate file types for RUN ?

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
If you wish to see OpenVMS ported onto x86-64 and/or you want
enhancements to filename extension handling and image activation, you
can either make the case to the vendor to add it, you can pay the vendor
to add it (and being capitalist, sufficiently large quantities of money
tend to garner the most attention),


Does Microsoft or Apple wait for customers to offer money to add a
feature ? No. Microsoft not only listens to customers, but also has a
VISION of where it wants its OS to go, checks out the competition to
traty to match/better what they have and then spends the money needed to
implement those ideas with knowledge that the only wait to maintain
market share is to come out with new features.

Idf ytou want VMS to grow out of its currently restricted niche, then
you need to start to use VISSION and spend money to add features that
MAY bring new customers. It is called taking a RISK.

VMS has not been taking that many risks, only catering to existing
customers and doing the minimum to keep a customer who threathens to
leave unless you add feature X.

Just consider how you, as VMS engineers, got requests for feature X.
Consider that the majority of VMS users have no way to send suggestions
and that someone would probably filter a lot of them before they even
got to you. So just because you don't hear about a certain suggestion
doesn't mean that many people don't want it.
.

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