[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Stephen Hoffman wrote 2012-08-17 17:26:
> On 2012-08-17 15:05:46 +0000, Keith Parris said:
>
>> On 8/16/2012 1:21 PM, John Wallace wrote:
>>> On Aug 16, 2:37 pm, Ian Miller <g... at uk2.net> wrote:
>>>> OpenVMS.Org are looking to collect and confirm some information about
>>>> OpenVMS users and usage. Please take a few minutes to complete this 13
>>>> question poll. Your input is
>>>> valuable.http://www.openvms.org/pages.php?page=Quick-Poll
>>>
>>> "would you use OpenVMS I64 running on x86 using an Integrity Virtual
>>> Machine in a production environment"
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> If that is intended to read as it is written, then it might be helpful
>>> to expand on the concept a bit (a linked page? or is the Wikipedia
>>> article sufficient?), for the benefit of those VMS folk who until now
>>> have had no interest in what's been available on IA64.
>>
>> A number of folks today run OpenVMS VAX under a VAX emulator or OpenVMS
>> Alpha under an Alpha emulator, running on top of an x86 platform.
>>
>> I read this question as: Would you be willing to run the Itanium version
>> of OpenVMS under an Itanium emulator (using a hypothetical example of HP
>> VM ported to x86) on top of an x86 platform, and do so for your
>> Production work?
>
>
> HP can either fix the wording of that question...........

OK, I might have missunderstod things here, but...

Does openvms.org equal "HP" ?
*Who* is actualy asking here ?

Jan-Erik.