[Info-vax] AXIS2/C, gSOAP

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <1050cf27-ab01-4c06-98a9-6e8c98949c9c at g33g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
> 
> 
> But I also "know we live in the age of uber-capitalism". Management
> always needs to be seen doing something to "increase profits" or
> "decrease costs" or both. 

That's not "uber-capitalism", this is simple
economic common sense. 
Even a non-capitalistic economy would have to obey this law.
Eastern block economies didn't and went out of business. 

> This means it is very likely that HP will
> not officially support OpenVMS forever. They will never be able to
> sell it for a decent amount, and they would never put it into the
> public domain (unless they were allowed to incur a large write-off).

Watch the fate of OS/2 and you'll see what's in the pipeline for VMS.
If there's too much third party IP in VMS, HP can't possibly
put it into public domain. 
IBM has been asked several times to do so for OS/2,
but they refused it for exactly that reason.