RE: OpenVMS running on HP 3000's

From: Main, Kerry (kerry.main_at_hp.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:17:55 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Kuff [mailto:kuff@tessco.com]
> Sent: August 30, 2004 2:41 PM
> To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
> Subject: Re: OpenVMS running on HP 3000's
>
> Yup..... guess that is to confuse the HP Legacy people further
>
>
>
> "Barry Treahy, Jr." <Treahy@MMaz.com> wrote in message
> news:41337022.5050506@MMaz.com...
> > Anyone else catch the August 23 eWeek article titled
> 'Countrywide tapes
> > WRQ for integration?' Boy, have they got their facts
> screwed up here
> > and what makes this worse? Claiming that this inerrant
> data came from
> HP!:
> >
> > "Countrywide Global isn't alone in its reliance on legacy systems.
> > Officials at Hewlett-Packard Co. estimate that there are more than
> > 400,000 of its OpenVMS systems installed worldwide, many of
> them on HP
> > 3000 machines."
> >
> >

Re: "legacy" systems ..

Rant mode on>

I always get a kick out of those media types that like to refer to
"legacy" systems as necessary evils that does not warrant additional
expenditures.

Reality check - *all* platforms have legacy versions. That does not make
the current versions "legacy".

Microsoft now calls NT4 servers "legacy". Sun calls Solaris V2 servers
"legacy". IBM calls old mainframe versions "legacy". AIX and HP-UX have
versions they call "legacy".

So, does the fact that Microsoft calls Windows NT4 servers "legacy" mean
that Microsoft current versions are "legacy?". Of course not.

Fwiw, I like the term "existing" systems. It is a term that is a lot
less politically volatile than walking into a Windows, Solaris or
OpenVMS shop and referring to their applications that are running their
entire business as "legacy".

Rant mode off>

:-)

Regards,

Kerry Main
Senior Consultant
HP Services Canada
Voice: 613-592-4660
Fax: 613-591-4477
Email: kerryDOTmainAThpDOTcom
(remove the DOT's and AT for email address)

"OpenVMS has always had integrity ..
Now, Integrity has OpenVMS .."

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