[Info-vax] Changes to OpenVMS Support

[David Froble]

JF Mezei wrote:
> IanMiller wrote:
>> HP have announced that OpenVMS Alpha V6.2 and OpenVMS Alpha V6.2-1HX will move from PVS with SE to PVS without SE starting 1st May 2014.
> 
> 
> Had to go to the openvms.org web page for a translation :-)
> 
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> OpenVMS Alpha V6.2 and OpenVMS Alpha V6.2-1HX will move from Prior
> Version Support (PVS) with Sustaining Engineering to PVS without
> Sustaining Engineering starting 1st May 2014.
> Extended Engineering Support (EES) availability for OpenVMS Alpha V8.2
> and OpenVMS I64 V8.2-1 would be ending on 30th April 2014.
> ##
> 
> 
> So basically, VMS engineering will no longer have resources allocated to
> looking at 6.2 for alpha. Is that the correct interpretation ?
> 
> So support contracts for 6.2 will include only telephone support but
> reporting bugs will ot do anything because they won't be any engineering
> resources available ?
> 
> Isn't 6.2 circa 1993-1994 ?

What was Microsoft running in 1995?

What has Microsoft introduced AFTER that time for which they've long ago dropped support?

If someone has been running VMS 6.2 for lo these many years, and it hasn't croaked on them 
yet, then for their purposes why would they even care about software support?

If you want to be really mean, just call up billy boy and ask for some support for MS-DOS. 
  He'll probably laugh so hard he'll choke and die ....