[Info-vax] Message from HP.

[JF Mezei]

On 13-12-09 10:53, "Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)" wrote:

> Perhaps a win-win scenario. But a short term one.
> If only NSK survives in BSC, BSC is already dead.


I thin NSK will be put into its own fairly autonomous department that
will have both software and hardware.

> 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,

Nop. They will have fault tolerant X86 based hardware. Not "off the
shelf" stuff.

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

HP has an internal estimate of the percentage of VMS customers who will
stay with HP. If they match or go avove that estimate, they will declare
it a "win". They have already written off most of the customer base.