[Info-vax] OT: Technology blogger for Motley Fool

[JF Mezei]

seasoned_geek wrote:

> We can make OpenVMS relevant again.
> 
> All it takes is for us to tell the world about all of the new
> development, even if those factions at HP which keep getting the
> company dragged before Congressional Inquiries keep telling the world
> they've stopped development.


Sorry to be the party pooper on this but...

 The oly way to make VMS relevant would be to wait for some major system
failure that make the news (stock exchange down etc) and then point to
reporters that HP had a solution for this called VMS which allowed
clustering over distant sites and that if VMS had been used, this
systems failyre wouldn't have been noticed, however HP never leveraged
its potential and has told cutsomer since 2001 that HP expects VMS
customer to migrate away from VMS in their own due time.


With a roadmap that no longer commits any new VMS version, you would
have very little credibility stating that there are new developments in
the works for VMS.