[Info-vax] Message from HP.

["Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)"]

Le 09/12/2013 21:33, JF Mezei a écrit :
> 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.
>
>
What I think is NSK alone cannot be BCS, and BCS without HP-UX and 
without VMS is NSK alone, with some "industrial" windows.
I bet NSK / BCS / hyperWindow could survive 5 to 8 years before HP think 
about it as it thinks about VMS. Too small, too complicate.