11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
7:07 a.m.
At 12:10 AM 6/11/2009, Zane H. Healy wrote:
IIRC, they've claimed 400,000 for years, and at the
same time you're always hearing of customers moving off of it. The reasons for the
lack of new customers are totally the Corporate owners fault. It has been on a decline
for well over a decade. The moves to kill it off started with DEC itself.
You'd think if someone knows somebody on the recently exiled
development / maintenance team, they might be able to relate
better numbers on how many systems were still in use...
As they say, even if you're coasting, you must be going downhill.
Any business process faces the same issue. If you can't easily
expand or duplicate the process, if you can't easily hire the
people to run it, you'll seek a replacement. There's always the
proverbial PDP-8 running a CNC machine for decades, but it's
more difficult with systems that deal with changing product lines
and increasing numbers of employees and their connected technologies.
- John