[Info-vax] Message from HP.

["Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)"]

Le 09/12/2013 00:35, JF Mezei a écrit :
> On 13-12-08 17:12, "Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)" wrote:
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>> And in the official talks they laud Non-Stop, Non-Stop and Non-Stop
>> again : I think in a sort of wishfull-thinking, they imagine VMS
>> customers wil go to Non-Stop.
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> Some VMS customers can go to Linux. And some really do need the
> uptime/mission critical and will be willing/forced to pay the premium to
> run NSK.
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> Not sure what percentage of VMS customers will go NSK. But this would be
> a big boost for NSK where each new customer means a big increase in
> revenues. So even if just a few VMS customers go NSK, it is a win-win
> scenario for HP.
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Perhaps a win-win scenario. But a short term one.
If only NSK survives in BSC, BSC is already dead.

ISS + BSC seems to be the new equation.

BSC would sink in ISS :
- HP-UX customers would disappear, and it is not sure they will remain 
with HP, with no special value added on HP Unixes or Linuxes, whereas 
AIX has a value added,

- NSK is a funny market, but little, and NSK on x86 is a little bit 
logical end of NSK : NSK fundamentals were in special constructs of 
hardware, newNSK on x86 is just special software, no so better than VMS 
or good unixes, in a word NSK is a short term success,

- VMS will disappear, and a majority of the exVMS would certainly not go 
on with HP,

- it will remain, as usual with HP : good hardware (moonshot, 
storage,...) and not any good software.