[Info-vax] Updated VMS Roadmap

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 09-01-2010 00:45, JF Mezei wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>
>>> Looks like sunset is arriving.
>>
>> There is nothing in the roadmap indicating that.
>>
>> The next version has a name and a year.
>
> I don't consider 8.4 to be the "next" version. It is the 2009 version
> that has been delayed for various reasons and scaled down (IPsec for
> instance).

Since it is not released yet then it is next version.

>> The version after that does not.
>
> OK. I found a December 2008 version of the roadmap. That one also
> stopped naming verstions at 8.4.  Has has a couple of pages removed, and
> they forgot to remove some text below graphics.
>
> There are lots of minor tweaks. Many of the products are going to be
> based on a newer base code. (for instance, the proprietary version of
> Apache will be based on 2.1.x instead of 2.0.x)
>
> There are many things removed, and some moved from being in 8.4 to being
> in "Future releases".  RTR is now being ported to Linux for both front
> end and back end. Seems that RTR still has some level of importance.
>
> And they did push the end of "standard" support for 8.3 by one year (now
> sometime in 2012)

Plans change. Also at HP. No surprise.

Arne