[Info-vax] Changes to OpenVMS Support

[David Froble]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 5/3/2012 6:04 PM, David Froble wrote:
>> 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 :-)
>>>
>>> ##
>>> 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?
> 
> NT 4.0 was released in summer 1996.
> 
>> What has Microsoft introduced AFTER that time for which they've long ago
>> dropped support?
> 
> NT 4.0 mainstream support ended ultimo 2002 and extended support ended
> ultimo 2004.
> 
> 2000 ended mid 2005 and mid 2010.
> 
> 2003 mainstream ended mid 2010 and are still on extended (until
> mid 2015).
> 
> 2008 is still on mainstream (dates are mid 2013 and mid 2018).
> 
> Arne
> 
> 
> 

You have some problems recognizing rhetorical questions ???

:-)

I was sort of referring to what VMS offered while MS still was offering MS-DOS, and, 
suggesting that dropping support on such an old product isn't really such a disaster.