[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:

> 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.

I don't see this as an indication that VMS was dead,
just a cost cutting measure in the first place.
(of course it was an indication that VMS wasn't doing well,
but it's up to the customers to buy more VMS gear to
improve the situation)

Quite a few IT companies moved their teams to india,
I bet HP-UX is there as well, and a couple of years ago
rumour had it that AIX is already there.
(there were some really newbie questions from indians
in the related NGs)
But maybe IBM have a better QA for their products?

> 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.

Maybe BG (no, not Bill Gates :-) could jump in here once again
and point out that these long term contracts never existed?