[Info-vax] newVMS, was: Re: [OT] Abbreviations, was: Re: Desperately Seeking OpenVMS ecosystem

[Michael Kraemer]

Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer) schrieb:

> Examples, I got in our survey :
> France, Steel Industry, turnover 9,4 billions €, 38 000 users : "we want 
> to go on on VMS and itanium for 20 years"
> 
> USA, Business Intelligence, deals with 50% of fortune 100 : "HP has 
> removed trhe concept of CRITICAL from their thinking" ; "OpenVMS takes 
> 1/5th the manpower to manage of the next best OS" ; "HP has achieved in 
> the OS world what Obama just did with a web site "Much Ado about a Royal 
> Mess" and a massive IT failure."
> 
> Germany, car manufacturing : "HP appears to be abandoning our key 
> OpenVMS technology. HP is abandoning our business."

You can make as much wind as you want,
as long as those businesses spend less than
$100M/a (three years ago), or $30M to $50M
nowadays, VMS can't be *that* important for
them. And consequently not important for HP.