[Info-vax] What do HP's planned changes mean for VMS?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/22/2011 6:50 PM, Richard Maher wrote:
> "tadamsmar"<tadamsmar at yahoo.com>  wrote in message
> news:e1ca4d82-553d-471b-b889-1d5dc2ce740b at gz5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com...
>> HP plans to exit the PC business to focus on enterprise and commercial
>> software, cloud, and solutions.
>>
>> What does this mean for VMS?
>
> "enterprise and commercial software, cloud, and solutions." normally require
> a RDBMS which rules out IA64 and therefore VMS.

There are a few RDBMS'es available.

But not the big commercial widely used ones that can drive sales.

> HP will soon/now begin focusing on their industry standard commodity
> hardware offerings and cease pouring money in niche software solutions (let
> alone VMS)

I thought that happened many years ago.

Arne