[Info-vax] Meg Whitman's base salary increased from $1 per year to $1, 500, 000 per year retroactive to November 1, 2013.

[Norm Raphael]

> On 12/18/13, JF Mezei<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 
> On 13-12-18 12:50, Norm Raphael wrote:
> 
> > It still feels like the death of 1000 cuts....
> 
> I guess I am lucky because I was able to accept VMS' death quite some
> time ago and try to move on.
> 
> BCS has passed the point of no return some time ago. In one of her first
> speeches as CEO, she even stated that there wasn't anything that could
> be done to save BCS and that HP would focus on industry standard servers.
> 
> So, for me, I don't see her raise as coinciding with the killing of VMS,
> but rather that she was able to cut the dead branches and focus on the
> viable branches of HP to make it profitable.
> 
> I can see how someone can associate her killing of VMS and getting a
> raise at same time to the American Airlines CEO asking unionised
> employees for serious wage cuts while he is getting a raise.
> 
> But I don't see it this way. The BCS/Itanic branch has been dead for
> some time. And I fault HP for taking so long to start to fess up to it.
> It has known/planned for it since LaCarly days, and kept stating that
> the ship was not sinking and that we should enjoy dinner in the main
> dining room and stop noticing the water flowing into the sinking ship.

I never said this raise was in any way associated with killing VMS, either 
by her or anyone else.  My former company quite reasonably moved to 
another DB on another platform for many good reasons - not the least of 
which was a complete lack of understanding about what the platform 
provided.  Nevertheless, the software vendor we were using could not 
stand up to an international vetting process, and was not porting the 
product beyond version V7.1 (although it ran fine on V7.3-2 when we 
moved on).
 
It's just that if NSK can rise from the ashes of Itanium, surely OpenVMS 
could also do so, given the will within HP to support it.  That's not going 
to happen, so it will take it's place in the shining hall of might-have-been, 
and" we in it shall be remembered--[w]e few, we happy few, we band of
brothers...and gentlemen...now-a-bed [s]hall think themselves 
accurs'd they were not here...."
 
Superannuated though I be, it still feels like the death of 1000 cuts....



Norman F. Raphael
"Everything worthwhile eventually 
degenerates into real work." -Murphy