[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[JF Mezei]

On 13-12-05 22:48, Michael Kraemer wrote:

>> 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.

Just like every others steps taken by HP, each step taken by itself is
not enough to draw the conclusion HP was not interested in VMS.

Take the ever shrinking VMS roadmap, take HP not wanting to announce the
dismantlement of VMS engineering, take HP refusing to say whether the
replacement team in India has the same capabilities/manpower, and that
draws a pretty straight line towards end of life for a product.

If the move to India had been accompanied with an increase in roadmap,
some advertising etc, then things would have been interpreted differently.

But there has alwasy been a consistent line from the day HP announced
its purchase of Compaq until this year, and that line was downward.

It isn't the individual points along the line that matter, but rather
the direction painted by the line.