[Info-vax] : Welcome to lockdown - HP limiting access to patches

[JF Mezei]

Michael Kraemer wrote:

> did they actually find one? I think not.

When they fired Hurd, they put the account as interim CEO until the
committee finds a permanent one. Lesjack (sp?) is her last name.


> BCS (=VMS+HPUX+NSK) is so insignificant within HP,
> with 3% of revenue and less than average profits
> (unless things have changed over the last 12 months),
> that he/she would hardly take notice.

I am not sure how things are strutured anymore. I am not even sure that
VMS development is part of BCS anymore. BCS may be just hardware now.
The indian division reports to some different dude within HP's hiearchy.

More importantly, in the pissing contest against IBM, HP needs
enterprise service revenues to make claims that it has a bigger
<whatever> than IBM.

While BCS revenues may not be significant, if they end up driving
service revenues, then they are still an strategic part of HP. But if,
in the end, the service side gets more business supporting non-HP
systems, then BCS may not be important at all. We don't know what is true.

The thing is that this move isn't going to generate increase revenues.
If at all, a bad web site to access patches may push customers to get
service from some other outfit which may get better patch distribution
service.

It is one thing to start charging for patches, but remember trhat they
are also moving them to some web based stuff likely to be complex and
breaking many automated procedures setup by customers over the years.