[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[MG]

On 9-5-2012 22:36, JF Mezei wrote:
> It would be logical for HP at this point to fess up about its plans to
> drop HPUX, VMS and IA64 (and announce its intentions for NSK).
> Continuing to pretend IA64 is safe and being actively developped reduces
> HP's credibility greatly.

It's not terribly logical for someone who said to have stopped using
VMS to continue to go on and on about it, that tends to reduce the
individual's credibility greatly.


> Whitman seems to be more pragmatic and if BCS loses too much money
> beause of tanking IA64 sales, it would be in HP's best interests to
> initiate the transition to 8086/Linux/Windows sooner rather than to try
> to artificially stretch IA64's remain life.
>
> Any transition costs a company customers. But if you start now, you
> start off with a larger customer base. If you delay the transition, you
> allow more and more customers to leave you so when you start the
> tranistion, you start off with a smaller base of remaining customers.

You do realize you wrote the above on comp.os.vms, right?

  - MG