[Info-vax] HP's Partner Virtualization Program

[JF Mezei]

Richard Maher wrote:

> Hold on! Just a minute ago I thought I heard someone say: -
> "Implementing [a product] on platform X being profitably does not imply
> implementing [a product] on platform Y being profitably."


Implementing track pad support for laptops on an OS which runs on a
platform that has no laptop would not generate any sales.

And as for ther WSIT example you bring up often. Perhaps it was a case
of an existing customer telling HP that if they didn't implement it,
they would move over to IBM of Sun.

In the case of IPSec, perhaps the customer that have made the cost
justification for HP to develop it decided to move to another platform
anyways, and once that happened, there was no point continuing with it.
(Perhaps it was Cerner customers who had made the business case for HP
to develop IPSec, and now that VMS will lose all that market, there was
no point for them to continue with it ?)

The above is all speculation, but designed to provide theoretical
examples where it would cause HP to develop one product over another.