[Info-vax] Shane Robison out @ HP

[JF Mezei]

BillPedersen wrote:

> http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111020c.html?mtxs=rss-corp-news
> 
> Let's not look at his laurel but at the real announcement of his
> retirement.


I've always distrusted him and Livermore because I felt those two were
instrumental in dismissing the potetial for VMS. This is just a feeling.
I have no hard data to support this.

The fact that they are not replacing him tells me they realised that
they shouldn't place all their eggs in one person who decides the fate
of all products.


There is the possibiity that HP are removing those who were roadblocks
to the success of BCS. Just a possibility. What remains to be seen is
whether Meg Whitman will issue a new "direction" report to show where HP
intends to go, this time making mention of the BCS products and Itanium
(something which was omitted from Apotheker's document).

This doesn't mean we'll see a revival of VMS. But it might mean that its
future (or lack thereof) will be clearer. Less uncertainty is better.