[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[David Froble]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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, or HP will receive 
> feedback on whatever the end-user thought that acronym soup meant (to 
> them), and HP can then apply that data to whatever the HP author(s) 
> intended with that question.    What could possibly go wrong?
> 
> Keith - from your interpretation - I can't tell if the folks at HP that 
> crafted that question understand the difference between an "emulator" or 
> "simulator" (e.g. simh) and a "virtual machine" (e.g. HP IVM), or if 
> they're mixing that distinction together into a porridge of confusion 
> and disappointment.
> 
> 
> 

Was the questioner developed by HP?  I didn't see any claims to this.  All I saw 
was OpenVMS.org.