[Info-vax] Gartner report on VMS future.

[ChaosLess]

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

Neil - if you are getting calls from S7 then please reply to me
because i don't think we have had anyone cold calling VMS shops for
years...

And if you still hear from S7 that 'OpenVMS is dead' then we aren't
communicating very well because that is not what we'd be trying to
say.

to the topic of this post, we too were being told in about 1990 that
VMS only had a 'few more years'...  we aim to give VMS software
greater longevity and, at customers request, interoperability of VMS
systems with other systems on VMS terms.