Re: HP *ALMOST* Advertised VMS

From: John Smith (a_at_nonymous.com)
Date: 09/06/03

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    "Peter Weaver" <WeaverConsultingServices@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
    news:bja67t$gsjc4$1@ID-141708.news.uni-berlin.de...
    > This, http://h71000.www7.hp.com/usps.html, had me excited for
    > a few minutes, until I checked out every link on the page to
    > find that VMS did not appear on any of them (unless you create
    > a cut-out that blocks out everything except the second letter
    > of the first word, the first letter of the ninth word and the
    > last letter of the ninth word on the two-page ad).
    >
    > Maybe we should all print a few million stickers that say
    > "Hey, they're talking about VMS here!" and hit every magazine
    > stand in our areas inserting the sticker in every magazine
    > they run the ad in?

    As seen in my post of August 26th...

    I was watching a program on CNBC this evening (6:30-7:00pm Eastern)

    CNBC's CheckPoint
    http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CNBCTV/TV_Info/P37413.asp

    "As the war on terrorism continues, the office of Homeland Security
    evolves and the geopolitical situation remains in flux, CNBC's
    CheckPoint" examines the business side of security and war, and
    analyzes the impact of increased national, corporate and personal
    security on the economy, corporate America and individual investors.

    "CNBC's CheckPoint" is a limited-run program that features insight and
    perspective from military and security experts. The experts shed light
    on the intelligence community's efforts against terrorism, at home and
    overseas. The program also features interviews with business and
    government leaders as they face the challenge of increasing security.
    "

    and they had a story on disaster recovery.

    It talked of how experts in the light of terrorism and natural and
    man-made disasters (ie. electricity grid failures, etc..) recommended
    that corporations maintain data centers at least 400 miles apart. And
    that they spread their operations across multiple buildings.

    They had a talking head on from Kroll, the risk management company to
    the Global 1000, http://www.krollworldwide.com/, talking about the
    pressing need for corporations of all sizes to do these sorts of
    things.

    The piece also talked of how IBM has built nearly somewhere between
    100-200 multi-vendor recovery sites around the world. And they showed
    video of racks of Compaq-branded Alphaservers inside these IBM data
    centers.

    Of course the ads for VMS clusters were nowhere to be seen on TV or in
    print since the great blackout of 2003....or before that either.

    I can understand the 'queasiness' HP might feel about using the WTC in
    an ad about disaster recovery, but to not have had VMS cluster
    advertising in the business media by now using the blackout as part of
    the storyline is just **massively ignorant** on the part of everyone
    associated with HP's management and marketing, and
    **counterproductive** to HP shareholder interests.

    A simple ad would suffice in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business
    Week etc.....

    Show a map of the USA and Canada, and/or Europe, to scale. Label major
    cities.
    Show the blackout area as a shaded area.
    Have a triangle with sides to scale of 500 miles.

    The instructions read:

    1) Cut out the triangle and overlay on the map.
    2) Locate your primary data center at one apex.
    3) Locate your backup and quorum sites at the other corners.
    4) Compare what other vendors can do.
    5) Install HP Alphaservers running OpenVMS at each location.
    6) Stay in business.

    OpenVMS clusters fit almost every budget, from two small machines with
    one processor each through to clusters of thousands of processors with
    dynamic partitioning capabilities.

    No matter which business you are in, disaster-tolerant OpenVMS
    clusters ensure that the lights don't permanently go out on your
    company.

    We wrote the book on clusters. Everyone else is just learning how to
    read.

    (c) 2003, John Smith. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

    HP - contact me off-line for the BIC code for my Caymans account.

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