[Info-vax] 2009 VMS Bootcamp notice

[JF Mezei]

DaveG wrote:

> Your last paragraph mentions that 8.4 is the last release for
> OpenVMS. 

Sorry, didn't mean to make it sound that way. I meant that I *feared*
that it might be the case. There have been no official announcements
about that.

I am not predicting that this will be the case either.

I think that if development is stopped, it is more likely to mimic the
broken promises about VAX. When 8.4 is released, they will still say
that VMS is being developped, but by the time people start to wonder
when the next release will come, HP will start to say that consultatios
with the installed base revealed that there was no demand for a new
version and that people prefered the stability of their systems etc etc.

The other way VMS could be killed is if it is combined with the end of
IA64 announcement, at which point, HP would commit to port NSK and HP-UX
to the 8086, and not mention VMS.