[Info-vax] 2009 VMS Bootcamp notice

[JF Mezei]

Michael Kraemer wrote:

> If windoze is so crappy, then why do we hear all the time
> in this group
> how happy people are running VMS emulators on top of it ?
> I mean, the emulation can only be as good as the host
> running beneath, no ?
> And why are so many people here happy with windoze as
> a surrogate for a native VMS desktop ?
> (Some even complain about such desktop apps being published)


We love VMS. It is hard to lot go of a loved one. We all know it its
owners have inflicted it with a terminal disease and it has but one way
to go: down. But as with loved ones, we keep hoping a miracle will
happen and its owner will turn around and deside to allow VMS to succeed.

HP has officialy had VMS since may 7th 2002. (add a year for unofficial
onwership when carly was already in bed wth curly about wedding).

Scott "we expect VMS customers to migrate to HP-UX"  Stallard is still
there, so is Ann Livermore. Nothing has changed since then. We may not
be willing to admit it, but deep down, we all know HP has no interest in
leveraging VMS and making it succesful. Lets face it, we are in denial
about VMS' lack of future.

It is easy to tell that HP is a hardware company. It values ink more
than it values the brains of software engineers who are some of the most
experienced in the industry, who have a strong philosophy of quality and
secure code. VMS engineers have developped technologies that are still
world leading and they should have been viewed as golden assets instead
of a cost centre.

Software companies greatly value their in-house engineering because they
know that this is their core asset. Software engineers define what the
company is capable of doing. And this is why software companies pamper
their core assets: software enginers.

HP sees software as a necessary evil, something that can be written by
commodity human resources that are interchangeable.

What happens to HP when people stop buying ink ? HP will have
cannabalised the rest of its business and will no longer have any of its
own assets. It will be just like Dell, slave to Microsoft and Intel.

Compare the company calling itselt "HP" today with the real Hewlett
Packard. The REAL HP innovated and was focused on R&D. It had high
quality instruments, medical istrumentations, high quality Mini
computers, high quality calculators et etc. There was one consistant
word associated with the real HP: QUALITY. This is no longer the case.
HP wants to be comodity, lowest common denominator and has no use for
innovative high quality stuff, unless it is related to ink.


The real HP is now called Agilent.  The owners of VMS don't really seem
to care about high quality stuff. If they did, they would see the huge
value that VMS engineers bring to products.