[Info-vax] VMS porting (again), was: Re: CPython has removed OpenVMS support

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote 2013-12-22 21:17:
> On Sunday, 22 December 2013 18:07:08 UTC, BillPedersen  wrote:
>> On Sunday, December 22, 2013 9:47:01 AM UTC-5, johnwa... at yahoo.co.uk
>> wrote:
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>>> On Sunday, 22 December 2013 13:43:22 UTC, Simon Clubley  wrote:
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>>>> On 2013-12-22, Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)
>>>> <gerard.calliet at pia-sofer.fr> wrote:
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>>>>> Le 22/12/2013 10:53, Michael Kraemer a écrit :
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>>>>>> Craig A. Berry schrieb:
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>> John:
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>> The announcement you mention is here:  http://www.hp-connect.se/
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>> The translation of it, courtesy of Google Translate:
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>> OpenVMS SIG meeting January 22, 2014 at HP in Frösunda Port .
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>> Register your attendance here
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>> HP Connect Sweden invites to OpenVMS SIG meeting , to provide an
>> opportunity for members, consultants and HP to present opportunities
>> and discuss the future of OpenVMS - based systems.
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>> We now have a provisional agenda with speakers for the meeting which
>> takes place Jan. 22 at HP in Frösunda Port . Welcome from 09:00
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>> To involved the invited speakers we willhave most of the discussions
>> in English .
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>> 09:00 Registration and coffee
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>> 10:00 Welcome and a brief introduction HP Connect
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>> 10:10 HP strategy for business critical server platforms Ken surplice
>> , HP EMEA
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>> 11:00 How to cope with migration challenges , Colin Butcher, xdelta
>> UK
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>> Experiences from real customer situations
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>> 12.00 Lunch , with time for offline discussion . Restaurant Frösunda
>> Port
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>> 13:30 Migration from OpenVMS using Open Source solutions Brett
>> Cameron, HP NZ
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>> 14:30 Break
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>> 14:45 Experiences from EARLIER migration activities Anders Johansson,
>> HP Connect
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>> Introduction by Anders Johansson + open Discussion
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>> 15:45 Break
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>> 16:15 OpenVMS patch kit update Lars " zinc " HP SE Sundqvist
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>> 16:30 Summary - next steps Ray Turner, HP EMEA
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>> 17:00 Program End
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>> Please feel free to Anders Johansson if you are able to contribute
>> with experience or
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>> questions that you wish to have clarified. anders.johansson @ HP
>> connect.se
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>> It is also possible to book separate meetings with speakers today , 21
>> and 23 / 1. Sign up as soon as possible to this important meeting .
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>> With warm Christmas and New Year Greetings
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>> The Board of Directors of HP Connect Sweden
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>> Register your attendance here
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>> =============================
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>> From this I do not expect to see any "grand announcement".  It sounds
>> more like the folks trying to push the HP Mantra...  Unfortunately...
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>> Bill.
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> Thanks for that, Bill.
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> "I do not expect to see any "grand announcement"."
>
> Looks that way. In what way was the NSK about-face announced, I've
> forgotten that too?
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> "folks trying to push the HP Mantra"
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> Some of the presenters are employed to do that. Some of them aren't.

And those others are surely employed to make the best for whoever
pays them. They are not payed to save VMS.

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> It's hard to see how much content or credibility any "HP Mantra" (aka
> "business critical strategy"? sorry Ken! Good luck Ray!) will have in
> the current situation. I'm not sure how keen European VMS customers will
> be on anybody's 'public' cloud at the moment either, courtesy of recent
> US developments.
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> Hopefully there'll be plenty of time for customer-to-vendor and
> customer-to-customer interaction as well as the scheduled
> presentations.
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> I'll be somewhere else. Best of luck to those attending and presenting.
>

I've registred myself, at least...

Jan-Erik.