Shouldn't we be helping HP ?

Is it really worth fighting against HP for the survival of VMS ?

What would happen if the VMS community were to start to help HP in very visible and public ways and convince the press and people that HP is truly winding down VMS and expecting people to switch to HP-UX ?

The community has been fighting actively for the last 15 years, and while the various owners may not have had the guts to officially retire VMS, the community has not been succesful at changing the owner's minds on the concept of promoting and growing VMS.

The Cerner bit about moving from VMS to HP-UX really shows that the Stallards of HP are having they ways and that the original May 7th 2002 memo has always been HP's strategy towards VMS and that HP has worked behind the scenes to slowly implement it.

is it really worth fighting ?

When you consider that many VMS engineers are leaving one by one, (like rats leaving a sinking ship), and you consider the Cerner issue, perhaps VMS is now truly terminal ?

VMS has been attacked by the Palmer cancer, by Compaq and now folks like Stallard et all at HP. The community may have been able to slow the cancer's growth, but eventually it does grow to a point where you can't control its downfall anymore, at which point, you give the patient morphine for a peaceful death.

When it gets to that point, you do not wish to prolong life.

Is there really a point in fighting for VMS ?
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