[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[JF Mezei]

On 13-12-04 18:55, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> Oh puleezze.  The writing has been on the wal for ages.  Go back and
> read some of your own posts.

Yep. But  HP was still saying VMS was still being developped and that
IA64 had a long bright future ahead. So media couldn't really quote the
"writing on the wall" which HO continued to deny until this year.

And here is the problem: with huge walls painted with that writing, how
come the large corporate clients of VMS didn't go to Carly/Hurd/Whitman
to convince them that VMS was unique and had to be preserved ? NSK
customers did manage to convince HP of this.

It is quite possible that those large key VMS customers had very little
resistance to moving to a different platform and hence very little
lobbying happened to save VMS.

> I missed that.  I didn't see them hide anything.

HP refused to say how many indians were being hired to replace VMS
engineering. And during the web conference, a slide was provided to show
some of the key employees in India. HP corporate required that slide be
taken down because it was never meant to be public.