From: bill.gunshannon@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/4/2025 11:53 AM, Dan Cross wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > Look: I like VMS.  I'm glad that it's still a going concern.   
   > But the sad reality is that it has a very small niche market and   
   > that market is shrinking.  Getting mad at people pointing that   
   > out isn't helping keep it available long term.   
      
      
   I .too, like VMS (contrary to what a  lot of people here think :-) and   
   I personally know of a couple of niche markets VMS used to be strong   
   in (maybe not dominate, but held a good position).  I never really   
   understood why they lost those markets and I would love to see them   
   back.  But the more I read and see the more it seems to me that there   
   is no desire to actually grow the VMS market and the majority (including   
   those who actually control it) are perfectly happy to just let things   
   slide slowly down a black hole from which nothing ever returns.   
      
   bill   
      
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