[Info-vax] Gartner report on VMS future.

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Jeremy Begg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I too received this report from Sujatha with interest.  My only 
> complaint was that the report didn't include my company as a provider of 
> Itanium porting services, despite us being a DSPP member (OpenVMS 
> consulting and software development).
> 
> (For those who are interested: we've run a VMS Integrity server here 
> since 2003.  We've assisted a number of customers with porting code to 
> IA64 in various programming languagues including MACRO, C, Pascal, COBOL 
> & DIBOL. We moved a complete customer environment last year and we are 
> about to move two more customers from Alpha to Integrity across four 
> sites, with D/R capability as part of the migration plan.)
> 
> VAXman- wrote:
>> In article <LxKrm.11592$U5.153839 at newsb.telia.net>, 
>> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan-Erik_S=F6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> 
>> writes:
>>
>>> 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 sent a request to be added to that list; however, my exclusion would 
>> seem to indicate, by your posting here, quieta non movere.
>>
> 
> No offence VAXman but making contact with you via email seems to be next 
> to impossible.  So maybe you were added to Sujatha's list but her 
> messages are being dropped.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>         Jeremy Begg
> 

VAXman has a filter on his mail.  There's a keyword you have to put in 
your subject line.  Without the keyword your mail will wind up in the 
bit bucket!

He will probably give you the magic character string.  I think I 
remember what it is but it's not mine to tell!