[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <52a13d37$0$35104$c3e8da3$460562f1 at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 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.

No government contract runs for more than one year.  They may have options
to renew, but it is always depending on budget.  Scratch a line from the
budget and a contract ends on September 30th of the current FY.  I tried
to tell people here that while there may have been major VMS contracts in
DOD in the past by very early this millenium they are all on their way
out the door.  The last DISA STIG Checklist for VMS was in 2006.  There
has never been one for an Itanium system.  Trying to get DITSCAP/DIACAP
approval for a system not on DISA's favored sons list is more work than
any government employee is likely to be willing to do.  I'm willing to
bet that even the academic VMS system at West Point has been gone for at
least 20 years.
 
bill

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