[Info-vax] Wanted: Fresh blood in HP BCS

[JF Mezei]

FrankS wrote:

> I suppose nobody finds the mention of HP BCS and "marketing" to be
> positive, other than me?  This job posting would appear to be a sign
> that HP might be preparing to build up its enterprise business.

Yep. But for project Odyssey, not for legacy Integrity based systems.

Face it, while HP hasn't formally announced end of life for the IA64
ecosystem, the fact that it is announcing that its customers want to
move to 8086 based superdomes and that customers want some HP-UX
features ported to Linux should make it really really really clear to
anyone what the plan is.

Does VMS even run on IA64 Superdomes ? And if not, why not ?

VMS can run on the IA64 "blades", and the new superdomes are just
glorified blades.

And VMS had all the logic to run multiple instance of itself on
wildfile/galaxy class machines, and when you look at the new superdomes,
they look a lot like that, with shared memory path between blades. Yet,
VMS isn't sold on such configs, probably because there is nobody left to
understand the wildfire/galaxy code for Alpha and port it to the new
environment, especially since that environment isn't going to last long.

And yes HP will have to do marketing to explain to its existing customer
 based their option for migration to Linux or Windows.

> The mere mention of OpenVMS in a job posting where HP is looking for
> someone to grow that part of their business should have had people
> cheering, no?

HP is not looking to grow that part of the business. Listen to Whitman's
discussion with financial analysts. BCS business is dropping fast, and
they aren't trying to stop it, they are hurrying up that noew 8086 based
archicture to give BCS new business on a new platform. Meanwhile, HP
contines its policy of stating that none of its OS will be ported to the
8086.

If you don't see the writing on the wall, I suggest you go see an
optometrist.