[Info-vax] FWIW: HP to spin off PSG?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 8/21/2011 4:38 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article<4e51686d$0$955$c3e8da3$9f400e27 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei
> <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca>  writes:
>
>> It is interesting that HP would be throwing in the towel so quickly. It
>> is after all a big guy and should have the ability to compete. It should
>> have the financial and human resources to produce a top notch product.
>> Or did HP make Palm's talent redundant and choose to have offshore
>> drones "maintain" the software ?
>
> Maybe HP learned from VMS that being a big guy and having the ability,
> financial and human resources to produce a top-notch product doesn't
> necessarily translate into huge sales.  :-(
>

Especially not when you can get an O/S for FREE.  It's not VMS but Linux 
works, and offers the customary functions and services.

The last time I looked at license prices for an Alphaserver 4100 a VMS 
license was something like $20K.  Now add Oracle!

Sorry guys and gals, we can't afford to pay you any longer!!!