[Info-vax] VLF: The 35th Anniversary Communique from the VMS Liberation Front

[JF Mezei]

On 12-10-25 19:46, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:

> Do you have any HP shares Herr Helbig? - If not, we'd recommend
> cultivating a tranche, become a part-owner of HP, and start to sort out
> the management problem.


HP has already sorted out the BCS problems. It will be replaced by x86
as well as ARM commodity servers running Linux/Windows.  Getting HP to
reverse that decision and change plans once more would, at this point in
time, be counterproductive.

Instead of buying shares in HP, it might be better to get HP to agree to
sell VMS (or perhaps spin off 51% of VMS).

What would it take for HP to opensource VMS ?  Since they have already
written off BCS and dwindled development to a bare minimum, would HP
really lose anything by opensourcing VMS ? They could still issue
patches to support the couple of new itanium servers left to do.

Existing customers would still pay for support (and this is the only
thing HP is still interested in anyways for what is left of BCS).

And opensourcing VMS would not accelerate the churn, if at all, it might
reduce it.