[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[JF Mezei]

Paul Sture wrote:

> As it happens I don't depend on VMS for my livelihood any more, but for 
> the others who do, have you considered that you are actively trying to 
> wreck the last few years of their working lives?

Are you saying that VMS supporters should hide the evidence and tell
their bosses that VMS and IS64 are still a safe platform with long
future and is still actively devloppped with all sort so new features
planned for it ?


When bosses find out that those pro-VMS guys had their heads in the sand
and that VMS is soon to be in maintenance mode and IA64 EOLed, those
pro-VMS guys may lose their jobs because they did not warn their bosses
of the impending need to change.

While VMS systems will likely run well into the 2020s on old hardware,
any shop that needs a VMS OS that evolves will start to feel the pinch
soon since there are no significant changes to VMS in the roadmap anymore.

Those who rely on VMS for their jobs are better off telling their
superiors that VMS has a finite lifetime and get employer paid training
on Linux or whatever to help with the multi year transition.