[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[JF Mezei]

On 13-12-04 03:28, "Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)" wrote:

> With all the respect I must have with the ancestors, what are you doing 
> here, in comp.os.VMS, Sir ?


You know in those movies where a patient dies, and the doctor just won't
accept it and tries to rescussitate the patient over and over again but
it never works ?

I am the person next to him that eventually convinces him that it's over
and there is nothing left that can be done.

I remember being laughed at when HP annoucned it was buying Compaq and
mentioend every product except VMS and I said it was not a good sign for
VMS.

 I remember being laughed at when the famous Stallard Memo came out
because it was obvious to me that HP did not intend to move ahead.

I remember being laughed at when LaCarly announced in 2004 the end of
IA64 workstations, and not long after, Intel not only announcing 64 bit
8086s, but also that CSI a tech that should have been only IA64 also
going to 8086. (CSI si now known as Quickpath).

I remember being laughed at whenever I would hear HP senior folks like
Livermore and above speaking alsop always limiting their VMS commenrts
to supporting existing customers while they would go much further for
the other product lines.

I remember nobody taking me seriously when HP/Livermore stated
categorically that VMS would not be ported beyond IA64 (at a time when
the coundown for IA64 had laread begun for most).

And when the news came that VMS engineering had been replaced by folks
in india, I was the only one who noticed how HP would not allow any
staff member to discuss just how many indians were replacing the VMS
engineers. That is a bad bad sign.


And you barge in now when the patient is already dead and ask me what
have I done ?

Where were you when the patient was sick and in need of medecine ? I was
told to leave this group by many because I kept pointing out how sick
VMS was and that he needed forceful medecine.

I am here for the burrial.  The best that can be hopes now is for open
sourcing of parts (or all)  of VMS.

It just is not realistic to get HP to reconsider because even if VMS
were ported to x86, it would need a HUGE investment to bring it back up
to par, with over 15 years of neglect.