[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Neil Rieck]

On Thursday, August 2, 2012 5:50:14 AM UTC-4, Neil Rieck wrote:
> Another article on the same news item:
> 
> http://www.zdnet.com/hp-wins-over-oracle-in-itanium-legal-battle-7000001992/
> 
> Neil Rieck
> Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
> Ontario, Canada.
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/
>

Now we have all seen this "Tortoise and the Hare" situation before with whomever was in control of VMS: They have won the court case so there is no need to put any more effort into marketing the product, "Just sit back and let the money roll in".

If HP was smart, they would now use this recent event to launch a new marketing campaign. I still run into numerous IT professionals in Canada who think:

1) VMS died with VAX
    or
2) Never heard about Alpha or OpenVMS
    or
4) Knew about Alpha but have never heard of Itanium

If IT people don't know about Itanium, or think VMS is dead, then there is very little chance of HP selling these products.

Just my 2-cents worth :-)

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