Re: Question for the Group

AEF schrieb:


Can you please supply a link? I missed it.

It's the well-known webcast transcription:

http://mail.openvms.org:8100/Lists/news/Message/18.html

the way I read this is that HP has tried, but failed.


Again you're justifying letting the patient die by saying, "Look, the
patient is dying. Let's go home." It's the POTENTIAL profits. High-
margin profits.

History has proved that companies are willing to spend more for VMS if
it weren't allowed to languish as it is. Would it kill HP to try?
Would the shareholders revolt if profits from VMS increased? Doesn't
it make sense to market your high-margin products?

Well, I'm not in HPs shoes and I have no business
in defending their actions, I just find their strategy comprehensible.
Why should they put extra effort on such a tiny fraction of their business ?
Even if VMS revenue was several times larger at the time of
the Compaq takeover, it still was dwarfed by HPs ink ocean.

As far as the potential goes: I think (as does probably HP)
you vastly overestimate that, the hey-days of VMS are long gone.
The few companies who still believe VMS is indispensable for their
IT will buy it anyway, without marketing.
Its (almost) just like IBM treat their "legacy" iSeries/zSeries business.

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