Re: HP on fast track to finding a CEO

From: Brad Hamilton (brMadAhaPmiSlton_at_coMmcAasPt.Snet)
Date: 03/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:45:43 -0500

Main, Kerry wrote:

<snip>
> David,
>
> Re: moving to AIX ... Course, one when looking at long term futures,
> albeit a bit dated, they might also want to consider the following
> public statement from the top VP in charge of software at IBM:
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982512.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed
<snip>

Kerry,

That article is now more than two years old - where's the death? :-)

David is (I think) speaking of a vendor whose product used to be
available exclusively on VMS, but is now available on AIX, as well. I
was acquainted with a hospital in my area that started testing one of
these boxes last year (code named: Shark - how's _that_ for irony?)
There was a VMS box in the same computer room, running a different
application, but the handwriting was plainly on the wall for me - "old"
VMS box (2100 - V6.2-1H1) on the way out, "new" AIX box(es) (about the
size and shape of the EV Storageworks boxes) on the way in.

HP (VMS) is rapidly losing ground in one of its last "niche" markets,
and prefers to stand by, idly whistling in the dark, and hoping its
competitors will just go away quietly.

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