Re: Shouldn't we be helping HP ?

On May 11, 12:59 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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 ?

they should not be lying to customers! And if HP does not want
VMS then you should tell them to sell it to someone who has
the goal of making it the number one os where it should be ...

you tell them like we have that we have a lot invested in vms and
we are not leaving, and if forced to we will go to IBM and NEVER
buy another HP product (incl. ink cartridges) again!

.

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