Re: Is VMS losing the Financial Sector, also?

Main, Kerry wrote:
Yeah, have seen a number of cases where the OS religion over-rides sound
business judgement.

Gotta love the IT hype these days.


Which is exactly why VMS needs strong and modern marketing if it wants to survive. IT has a heard mentality. And VMS needs to be protrayed as being part of the pack so that the heard will adopt it.

The fact that Linux was able to make so many inroads against Windows is proof that it is possible with the right marketing to get it done.

VMS needs a major dose of marketing to counter not only windows and linux, but also Solaris (Sun is trying hard to position Solaris as an "in" OS that is seen as part of the pack.

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