[Info-vax] "Not so" nice for VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> I ran into someone I am sure at least a couple of people here will
> remember this morning.  Bob Curley.  Seems he has been talked into
> un-retiring for some part-time work for a couple of months.  While
> bringing a VMS dinosaur back may seem promising, it isn't.  He 
> informed me that VMS is on its way out of the administrative side
> of the house, here, just as it did from the academic side.  Why,
> you ask?  Because SCT Banner has informed them that they are no
> loinger going to support VMS and, as has been stated here repeatedly,
> it's the applications, not the OS that makes the difference.  He
> also mentioned something about Oracle being involved in the decision
> but I was not aware of any changes at Oracle regarding VMS support.
> So, it looks like a move to Linux or Windows.  And I got the idea
> the timeframe was by this summer as that was how long they wanted Bob
> to stick around.
> 
> Sigh........

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Arne