From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-09-12, bill  wrote:   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   Especially given that z/OS is actually several years older than VMS   
   and is still going very strongly indeed.   
      
   Could VMS still have been as strong to this day if different decisions   
   and paths in the past had been taken ?   
      
   Simon.   
      
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   Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
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