From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 9/16/2025 1:46 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:   
   > 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 ?   
      
   Of course.   
      
   But I don't think there is much point.   
      
   Many/most declining companies/products could have avoided   
   decline if they at the time decisions had to be made   
   had known what everybody knows 10/20/30/40 years later.   
      
   I could have won the lottery if I had known which   
   numbers would be drawn.   
      
   :-)   
      
   Arne   
      
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