[Info-vax] Out with Hurd, in with OpenVMS

[John Smith (not the one @ HP)]

"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote in message 
news:4c60ae9f$1$9932$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com...
> Michael Kraemer wrote:
>
>> HP is still focused on commodity items,
>> so bean counters are more important than engineers.
>
> In the commodity items, the lack of R&D/innovation makes HP products the
> same as Lenovo, Dell et all.
>
> The Board sees what Apple is doing with those same commodity components,
> and must wonder "why can't we do the same ?" (answer: because you
> killed your own R&D department).
>
> When HP got Compaq, the one product line that was "of value" was the
> iPaq. HP managed a couple of iterations of the device, and then more of
> less let go of it because it wanted Microsoft/Intel to do all the R&D
> and provide reference designs that HP could just implement. All the
> money spent to buy the iPaq product line was wasted. Now, HP is buying
> what is left of Palm and is hoping to relaunch a new line of phones with
> Palm's proprietary OS.  Will they do as they did with the iPaq and just
> let that investment wither away because they are not ready to spend on
> R&D to keep the product on a contant upgrade path ?
>
> While Hurd can be congratulated on improving operational performance, he
> has squandered a lot of value out of HP, both in product lines (iPaq,
> VMS etc) and in human resources and decimated HP Labs.
>
> Restarting HP's innovative spirit won't be easy when you have lost your
> innovators.


So who here is going to write a letter to Andreesen to explain the virtues 
of VMS and the importance of finding a CEO who believes it's worthy of more 
support nd effort than it hs received in the past 10 years?