[Info-vax] HP's Partner Virtualization Program

[Richard Maher]

Hi JF,

"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote in message
news:005c44db$0$8826$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com...
> 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.

I think I see hear what you're saying so let me try to paraphrase your
possibilities: -

1) A meteor hit the IPsec laboratories taking out all know record of the
source and installation kit

2) We continue to have a bunch of complete fucking numpties running TCP/IP
Services

Going purely on historical trends, I'm punting on option 2.

Regards Richard Maher