[Info-vax] Gartner report on VMS future.

[DaveG]

On Sep 15, 8:15 am, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Sep 15, 7:05 am, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Just FYI.
> > The main focus in this (rahter short) Gartner report is on
> > "Alpha migration", but VMS is of course mentioned.
>
> > Anyone on Sujatha's mail-list should have got a message
> > with the link, but I guess it's OK to post if here also...
>
> >http://h71000.www7.hp.com/gartner_report.html
>
> I received the email too and was shocked to see that HP was referring
> the reader to a Gartner Report advocating a move away from OpenVMS.
> See the section titled "I want to migrate completely away from
> OpenVMS" where they include a list of vendors who are willing to
> help.
>
> As an aside, two of the vendors (Transoft and Sector 7) call me
> monthly to inform me that OpenVMS is dead and that I should consider
> buying their porting services
>
> (Maybe JF is correct about HP trying to kill OpenVMS)
>
> NSR

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