[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[JF Mezei]

On 13-12-05 21:49, Michael Kraemer wrote:

>> And when it did become
>> public, all it would say was that the change would be transparent to
>> customers.
> 
> And therefore there's no need to inform the customers.

But in reality, they ditched VMS engineering and replaced it with a team
barely capable of doing maintenance, let alone real development. So this
is a material change which HP sought to hide from VMS customers o that
customers would delay the official recognition that VMS was dead.

This recognition came this year, and from now on, HP will likely wish to
accelerate the demise in order to end its liabilities as soon as posisble.

BTW, remember all those claims that DEC, then Compaq and then HP would
honour development of VMS until well beyopnd 2020 in order to meet
military requirements for those big sales they made ? Wonder where those
contracts went.