[Info-vax] Itanium Poulson a game changer

[Keith Parris]

On 2/23/2013 10:38 AM, MG wrote:
> IBM has most likely more in-house
> knowledge about VMS than HP had in all years that they've owned
> VMS combined. IBM has been hiring VMS people for years.

IBM Global Services has some VMS expertise, in support of their 
multi-vendor Services business, just as HP has expertise in mainframe, 
AIX, Oracle/Sun, Cisco, EMC, etc. products in support of its own 
multi-vendor Services business. I have friends who work in IBM Global 
Services and look forward to meeting them when they come to OpenVMS Boot 
Camp 2013 in March to learn the latest info about VMS. I also know from 
personal experience that when IBM hits the limits of their in-house 
expertise, they call in HP Services to help with our joint customers, 
because HP has far more (and deeper) VMS expertise in Services than IBM, 
not to mention OpenVMS Engineering itself.