[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

JF Mezei wrote 2012-08-11 03:55:
> David Froble wrote:
>
>> Now that you've come out of the closet, I think you're going to find that people
>> don't need you to make their decisions for them.  Now that you've confessed your
>> goal, you may find that your goal is rejected by many others.
>
> I am not in any position to get others off VMS. And I don't make
> decisions for others.
>
> But I am in a position...

That is part of the problem, you are not in any position at all,
not one that relates to the currect state of VMS, at least.

You are not a current VMS customer, right ?
You are not visiting any current VMS events, are you ?
You could not check the latest release notes for Rdb before
claiming it also in maintaines mode. And so on. You are
just whining.

It perfectly clear that you have some personal problem with
VMS, HP, Intel, Itanium and so on.
It is also true, as other have said, that your posts arn't
helpfull at all, even I you think so. For us that actualy *work*
with VMS, your posts ended beeing helpfull many years ago...

Jan-Erik.



  to look at what has happened and what is
> happening and see a path set by HP years ago that is becoming clearer
> and clearer and more difficult to change. That path leads to VMS in
> maintenance mode and an end to new IA64 servers in probably 3 years
> (although they may remain on sale for some time depending on contractual
> obligations and how long HP is willing to commit to supporting the
> hardware).  And end of sales in 2015 means at least 5 years of hardware
> support bringing this to 2020.
>
> The writing is on the wall. If you refuse to see it because you don't
> want the bad news, don't blame me.
>