[Info-vax] Like sands thru the hour glass

[JF Mezei]

Keith Parris wrote:

> If HP had in mind an End-of-Life for VMS any time soon, it wouldn't have 
> bothered to go to all the time, trouble and expense of transferring the 
> management of and engineering work for VMS to a new location. 


There are costs to funerals. Just because you pay for the funeral
expenses doesn't mean that you intend to keep your dead mother alive.

HP is obligated to keep a development team in place for 5 years after
eol announcement to produce critical patches and patches to make VMS wor
on whatever new IA64 machines come out between EOL announcement and end
of contractual support obligations.


I don't don't have written statement from HP confirming its true
intentions for VMS. All HP is willing to say publically is that it
intends to continue to support the existing VMS customer base.

Unless HP makes a WITTEN statement that commits it to generating at
least 3 more versions of VMS, I assume (for sake of expectations) that
8.4 will end up being the last version of VMS, but we won't realise this
until many years from now when 8.5 never shows up, the same way HP broke
its commitment for its "plan of record" to produce an 8.* version of
VAX-VMS.


There is no way that I will accept any positive spin for the replacement
of extremely experienced engineers who had spent their carreers on VMS
with commodity drones that are replaced every few months when they find
a new job (except for a few at the top who have been there for a while).

And Mr Parris, since your employer has yet to even acknowledge that VMS
engineering has move to India, how come you'are allowed to try to
spin/defend that move that officially hasn't happened ?