[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Simon Clubley]

I'm just sorting out my HP VMS contract for next year and there's the
following notice against my VMS paper documentation line item:

	Please note HP can no longer support this item from: 31.12.2012

This is on part number QA-001AA-GZ "OVMS Full Documentation".

Has anyone else seen this on their contracts for next year ?

The line item is also listed on next year's contract at 0.00 UKP instead
of it's usual value (which I cannot state: work policy), which implies to
me that I should not expect to see any more VMS paper documentation out of
HP and that this is basically my 12 months notice.

After all these years, it will strange not having a current VMS doc kit
on my bookcase when the next VMS versions come out.

At the prices HP charge, they must make a profit on it, so I wonder why
they have stopped.

BTW: Personally, while I use online resources for reference material,
I still prefer to use paper for tutorial/conceptual type reading when a
paper option is available. Am I alone in this ?

Simon.

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