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

[Thomas Wirt]

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

While your prediction may be correct, last I knew VMS still made good 
money for HP.  I don't think there is any pouring money into VMS.  If 
anything, VMS pours money into the rest of HP.  While I must admit that 
my info is 2 or 3 years old, I doubt that it has changed much since then.

>
> Regards Richard Maher
>


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