[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS

[JF Mezei]

Keith Parris wrote:

> So there doesn't seem to be a need for panic at this point.

While I have no probem believing that HP will continue to accept support
dollars for both hardware and software, the issue becomes that of a
stale operating system in maintenance mode with no new or updated
applications on it.

Currently, HP and its employees continue to pretend all is well and that
both IA64 and VMS are actively developped.


While the market has accepted that IA64 is dead, HP is still in denial
mode (and thus its employees who must toe the corporate line)

Unless employees are allowed to dicuss plans to port VMS to the 8086,
the only possible outcome is that VMS and HP-UX are coming to a dead end
 with the end of IA64.

While HP might provide an IA64 emulator to run on 8086 servers, this
does not mean that VMS or HP-UX will continue to be actively developped
with new features and applications. Such emulator would exist solely to
help customers move to new servers.