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

[Rich Jordan]

On Aug 21, 8:29 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Corrolary:
>
> If people stop upgrading, then HP can use the same excuse as it used to
> justify breaking its promise to produce an 8.* version of VAX VMS:  VAX
> customers are not interested in upgrades. (which I have been told
> informally was a bogus excuse that was not true at all)
>
> You know what "customers are not interested in upgrades" means...

We've limped on for many years with our VAXen falling behind (here and
at customer sites; the last customer may tumble soon to an Alpha, two
abandoned VMS, the rest did architecture upgrades).  The true killer
was the lack of updates for the TCPIP services product... there are SO
many bugs and flaws in V5.3 and HP  was still taking software support
money for quite a while, but never upgraded or fixed the problems.