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

[seasoned_geek]

On Dec 17, 4:53 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 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.

I said new developments with VMS, not "for" it.

Given the typical quality of Indian software development I fully
expect any future version will be HP's VISTA...well...it would be...if
they didn't already have a bigger industry laughing stock in HP-
UX...the operating system thrown out lock-stock-and-four-smoking-
barrels by China's major stock exchange.