[Info-vax] New RoadMap out for VMS

[JF Mezei]

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:

> So what ? What do you miss ? (I think I asked, didn't I?)

At this point, I am not missing anything. I am glad I moved email off
VMS because it was causiong me too much grief.

Just because I no longer have plans for VMS does not mean I am not
curious about its future and how the "new" HP is handling its
maintenance and upgrades.

I would still love for HP to bring VMS back to life and market all its
advantages. But I am no longer hopeful this will happen.

And this roadmap seems to point to VMS going into maintenance mode even
if not officially in such a mode.

As expected, the focus seems on supporting new hardware (support for
blades, poulson and new tape drives). Didn't see anything about
improvements to DCL.

What surprises me is continued development of both Seamonkey and
Firefox. Would have thought that they would have focused on one (and
perhaps port Thunderbird to provide modern email client on VMS).