[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Neil Rieck]

On Nov 23, 12:56 pm, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
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> Simon Clubley wrote 2011-11-23 17:01:
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> > 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:
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> >    Please note HP can no longer support this item from: 31.12.2012
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> > This is on part number QA-001AA-GZ "OVMS Full Documentation".
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> > Has anyone else seen this on their contracts for next year ?
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> > 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.
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> > After all these years, it will strange not having a current VMS doc kit
> > on my bookcase when the next VMS versions come out.
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> > At the prices HP charge, they must make a profit on it, so I wonder why
> > they have stopped.
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> > 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 ?
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> > Simon.
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> I havn't used a pre-printed VMS manual in probably 15 years. I do not
> think they have anything that the PDF's doesn't have, content wise.
> I think they (HP) can spend there time better then to pack and ship
> manuals.

Us too. As soon as electronic docs were available on CD-ROM (IIRC this
was 1998-1999) we stopped the paper docs. It was better for us (cuz
the stuff was searchable) and better for the planet.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/