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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <a46ae938-67fb-45bf-b15f-d5ff7929072f at j25g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
	seasoned_geek <roland at logikalsolutions.com> writes:
> On Oct 31, 10:13 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>> In article <acd0062a-6c4e-482c-8fc9-51d9fb2dd... at l20g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
>>         seasoned_geek <rol... at logikalsolutions.com> writes:
>>
>>
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>> > On Oct 23, 4:58 pm, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
>> >> seasoned_geek schrieb:
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>> >> > On Oct 19, 10:27 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>>
>> >> >>>VMS may be gone from mainstream military operations,
>>
>> >> >>I have been associated with the military since 1968. I have been doing
>> >> >>military IT since 1979. VMS was never in "mainstream military operations".
>>
>> >> > Actually, it was, and still is about as mainstream as it gets.
>>
>> >> >http://www.devbistro.com/jobs/120716
>>
>> >> VAX/VMS and VAX basic being "mainstream"?
>> >> I think not even JF would agree here.
>> > Payroll is as mainstream as it gets.
>>
>> You obviously missed the poet that pointed out that this is a Naval
>> Reserve job and not real Navy.  And in any case, all military pay is
>> done by DFAS in Indianapolis and it definitely is not being done on
>> VMS.
>>
>> The only major user of VMS with any ties to the DOD that I am currently
>> aware of is the VA.  And with the Medical Sector rapidly abandoning VMS,
>> how long do you think it will be before the VA follows suit.  And, let
>> me add that at this point in time the VA is in the process of a major
>> enterprise re-engineering.  Is there anyone here who does not know what
>> that most likely means as far as architecture of choice?
>>
> https://rockwellcollins.taleo.net/careersection/10000/jobdetail.ftl?job=462218&src=JB-11060

What's your point?

VAX/VMS is mentioned at the end, after Windows XP and other MS products.
Kinda looks like boilerplate, doesn't it?  Or do you really think they
are doing current development on VAX/VMS?

And, you must have missed the original thread.  That's a Rockwell/Collins
job, not DOD.  So, are we now trying to say that HP has a guaranteed
commitment to Rockwell to continue support for VAX/VMS?  And while it
mentions "aircraft", ti doesn't say they are military.   

bill

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