[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS

[JF Mezei]

Michael Moroney wrote:

> It depends on the level of service contract with HP, if any, they have.

Service contract doesn't garantee you have access to a HP sales rep and
even if it does, it doesn't garantee that sales rep is allowed to talk
about transition yet.

Once HP publicly admits that IA64 is on its last leg and that VMS/HP-UX
are dead ended on IA64, then HP sales reps will be given a new script to
read to customers and will stop pretending IA64 is succesful. At that
point, HP should also announce some sort of migration assistance to
their new 8086 basaed Superdomes and servers.

Until then, HP reps are forced to deny this will happen so they are useless.

If you are important enough that you can talk to Meg Whitman, then
things owuld be different. But you wouldn't be coming here for advice.