Re: US military and confidentiality

From: JF Mezei (jfmezei.spamnot_at_teksavvy.com)
Date: 07/04/05 

Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 20:42:54 -0400

"Main, Kerry" wrote:
> could not be improved. However, with regards to getting ISV's moving to
> OpenVMS Itanium, behind the scenes folks at HP have doing very well
> considering the official Itanium release for OpenVMS was only just
> officially released in Jan and many ISV's like to wait for the official
> release before starting their porting/testing.

There is a huge difference between convicing existing VMS ISVs to spend the
money to port to that IA64 thing, and attracting NEW applications and new ISVs
to VMS.

If you start off with 0 applications on VMS-IA64, you can easily generate
fantrastic growth statistics because you're dealing only with IA64 things.

Howver, since the installed base is Alpha and VAX, it is also important to
attract ISVs to Alpha and VAX. More so than some tiny IA64 marketplace.

Now, if Motif/X11 were on the roadmap, perhaps you could get Corel to port
wordperfect to VMS. Perhaps you could get Open Office fully ported and
supported. But none of the GUI applications will risk any porting effort
since VMS management steadfastedly omit Motif/X11 from the roadmaps.

> While marketing is certainly one way of getting ISV's on board, another
> approach is to actually talk and work with ISV's and HP has certainly
> been doing that.

Have they gone to SWIFT and begged SWIFT to reconsider VMS as a target
platform for their fund transfer software ? Have they apoligised for the deeds
of Palmer and Curly ?

Has HP gone to HP and asked them to reconsider VMS as a platform ? Or are they
happy that HP-UX runs SAP ?

> Certainly one advantage of Itanium for ISV's is that with a single
> Integrity server / small SAN, they can support their software on HP-UX,
> Linux and Windows as well as OpenVMS.

Not when HP-UX customers are still on PaRisc and when Linux customers are on
8086s and most VMS customers on Alpha/VAX.

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