[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[David Froble]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2012-08-17 14:09:47 +0000, Bob Koehler said:
> 
>> In article <5025bb8a$0$1198$c3e8da3$eb767761 at news.astraweb.com>, JF 
>> Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>>
>>> The writing is on the wall. If you refuse to see it because you don't
>>> want the bad news, don't blame me.
>>
>>    Haven't we been hearing this since the early 90s?
> 
> 
> Yes, these discussions started in earnest around Windows NT and Affinity 
> and related, which would be the early to mid-1990s, and probably before.
> 
> So - and strictly for comparative purposes - what has happened to the 
> OpenVMS business since the early to mid-1990s?  In the last decade or so?
> 
> 
> 

Marketing was abandoned by it's various owners ..

New development has shrunk through the years, until now where it seems to be 
very little ..

For HP, it's probably viewed as NIH ..

However, HP seems inclined to accept any money people throw at them ..

My own personal opinion, no matter how much money you throw at HP, they will 
take it, but not re-pay with increases in development and / or marketing.

Before there can be any re-birth of VMS, it's owners will first have to 
"believe" in it.  I think this is the basic problem ..