[Info-vax] bootcamp ?

[David Froble]

Keith Parris wrote:
> On 4/25/2013 2:55 PM, MG wrote:
>> On 25-apr-2013 22:36, Keith Parris wrote:
>>> On 4/25/2013 5:14 AM, JKB wrote:
>>>> OpenVMS is dying as there is no real new installations
>>>
>>> Ric Lewis (who as the new head of BCS ought to know) said at
>>> HP Discover in Frankfurt that HP does have some new OpenVMS
>>> customers.
>>>
>>> 25:31 into the video at
>>> http://h30614.www3.hp.com/Discover/MyEvent/session/BB2174
>>
>> "We aren't actively pursuing a lot of new customers on that OS,
>> but we have some."  (Hoffman also posted the transcript of it
>> at the time, here on comp.os.vms.)
>>
>> That video fragment proved JKB's point more than it did yours.
> 
> Nope. It proved the statement that there were no new OpenVMS 
> installations false.
> 
> If anything, the fact that HP does get new OpenVMS customers despite a 
> lack of emphasis attests to the merits of OpenVMS.
> 

Yes, and now the question is, if you have something that works, why 
aren't you working it to the fullest extent possible?

Tell me this, did those new customers come to HP, or did HP go out 
looking for them?