[Info-vax] IPsec the key to WEB-3

[Arne Vajhøj]

JF Mezei wrote:
> Richard Maher wrote:
>> Obvious to you perhaps. May I ask what makes you so confident of that
>> decision.
> 
> Taking out a plan from the roadmap is pretty official. This wasn't an
> april fool's thing.  Like it or not, it has happened.
> 
> There is no point in fighting it.

There are definitely no point in fighting it in comp.os.vms, where
most likely no one with real decision power within HP read.

Contact your local HP sales guy and show him the customers that
would buy more HP stuff if IPSec were available for VMS. If the
extra sale is real, then he will listen.

> When VMS was Digital's core product, the above applied well. But under
> HP, VMS is just a liability they inherited from the purchase of Compaq.
> It maty still be sligtly profitable, but to HP, they would much rather
> shut down VMS and move VMS customers over to HP-UX. This would allow
> them to save on all VMS development costs, and it would add to the HP-UX
> numbers, making HP-UX appear to have greater market share.
> 
> The big difference with the past (palmer, capellas) is that HP is going
> about it in a much smarter and slower way, and this may result in HP
> succesfully retaining a greater percentage of VMS customers at the end
> of the day.

HP-UX'es days may also be limited.

Arne