[Info-vax] Gartner report on VMS future.

[Neil Rieck]

On Sep 16, 6:59 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Neil Rieck wrote:
> > I think you are correct. I finally found some time to read it a second
> > time and it doesn't seem so negative. Must have been a brain-fart on
> > my part.
>
> HP is not stupid enough to put on its website a commercial study that is
> negative towards HP. Of course this Gartner study isn't overly negative
> towards VMS. And the question remains: who sponsored this study. The
> fact that HP can post the study on its web site for anyone to access
> probably means that HP paid for it.

As I just mention privately to someone else in an email,

I have always wondered if OpenVMS would be doing better had DEC/Compaq/
HP forked over the requisite amount of money for a better report. Many
people call me a conspiracy theorist (I am not) but this is exactly
what was happening in the financial world where big companies were
paying bond rating agencies for a desired rating (re: ABCP and/or sub-
prime mortgage instruments).

NSR