[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[JF Mezei]

Neil Rieck wrote:
> HP hasn't written off
> OpenVMS, they just ignore it because they don't know what it is 

My opinion is that HP top execs have been told that VMS has no future
and that its only path is downwards. They are maintaining it and welcome
the support dollars as long as they come but have no intention of
spending any money to try to relauch a product with no future.

And the longer this happens, the costlier it would be to bring VMS back
to life and update more and more and more of the subsystems to get it
into a marketable state.

VMS is now like an unfinished renovation project of an office building.
It's got a solid structure and fondation, has running water to some
floors but just some ancient toilets and sinks (applications) in some
places and incompatible electric system (CPU).

There comes a time where it just isn't worth the effort to complete that
renovation when you have a perfectly good and "modern" building with
modern applications next door.