[Info-vax] Heads up: multiple exploitable security issues in HP SWS

[JF Mezei]

> There have been a number of comments here over the years which basically
> came across as all Indians are stupid and this appeared to be another one.

When the outsourcing became public, I asked multiple times whether
staffing levels would remain roughly the same as before, and HP
steadfastedly refused to answer. If staffing levels had remained the
same or been increased, HP would have bragged about it.

Given time, the new team will gain experience, and with each error, they
learn. However, time will not fix a shortage of manpower to fix all the
bugs.That shortage is dictated by HP management who allocate how much
work the indian team is budgeted to do for VMS.


Of course, one must not forget the big white elephant in the room: the
court documents alleging that HP had long ago decided to retire the IA64
based operating systems along with IA64 after having tried to port HP-UX
to the 8086.

You don't spend money to improve an operating system that is a dead end,
you spend money to maintain it just eough to prevent customers from
running to other vendors at record speed.

Once HP launches its Odyssey 8086 Superdomes with either Linux or Window
"mainframes", I think we will start to get clearer message on porting
from the legacy OS to HP's new enterprise ecosystem.

Nobody should be surprised that the proprietary port of Apache to VMS is
years behind. The only solution to open sourced software is to integrate
the VMS specific stuff in the main source code tree so that anyone can
build the latest version