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

[Richard Maher]

Hi Arne,

"Arne Vajhøj" <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote in message
news:49ebdc60$0$90272$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk...
> 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.

So how many fronted up on the "Clusters over IP" petition?

Java 6 still "Awaiting customer feed-back"? Or is funding for arguably the
worst-performing, most-expensive, and least requested VMS facility simply
sacrosanct?

"I don't care about SeaMonkey, Mozilla, Netscape, Firefox Goddammit! I want
Chrome/VMS now!" And they are plenty with their snouts in VMS' trough who
are willing to deliver (or at least "develop"; deliverables are certainly a
stumbling-block for VMS engineering a la mode de IPsec)

Can't say I've heard "We want WSIT 3.0 and we want it now!" lately either.

But I'm sure you're fully aware that "Contact your local sales guy" is a
euphamism for piss-off and let us get on with this interesting CV-builder of
a project we're working on :-(

Look, HP is lucky to have individuals of the calibre and ability of the
Matts of this world but if all they're going to do is contemplate their
navel's on a beach  for 5 years then turn around and say "Can't be arsed
delivering anything unless you bitches say please!" then I think VMS should
be shut up now! *If you're in the IP stack business then your in the IPsec
business* - if you're indulging someone's fantasy about global clusters on a
dying architecture then maybe there is more fat to be trimmed for HP
shareholders?

IPsec is a requirement of IPv6; if you can do without it then you can do
without TCP/IP Services! Look how much we can save by pushing bustomers to
Process Software - It's a win win!

But no, keep asking customers to jump through your imaginary hoops and
continue to ignore the rest of the industry. It's sure worked so far :-(

Regards Richard Maher