[Info-vax] 2013 OpenVMS Boot Camp

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <a5e2f99b-5dd9-4214-a0a2-ac84add74738 at googlegroups.com>,
	DTL <didier.morandi at gmail.com> writes:
> Let me tell you a story.
> Yesterday I had a Fondue in Le Café de l'Eveche in Lausanne (Switzerland) with a Folk who spent the last ten years in VMS Migration Business in Europe.
> Today he is working for a Major Industry Leader somewhere around this side of the Pond. They went SAP from Oracle and thousand of Alpha everywhere in the World. You know what? No "Migration project" whatsoever, they just REBUILD everything.
> VMS is dead, buried and forgotten. Well, not for the US DOD, 

Name them!!!  When is this going to die?  Any use of VMS within DOD
is minimal and trivial.  DOD is a Windows shop.  It's all they teach
their SME's and the only OS they care about.  Even Linux has faded
into almost non-existance.  (The only major system using Linux that
I know of is a contractor provided Black Box.  DOD neither knows nor
cares what is under the hood.)

This has become just like the VMS Constant.  No basis, but it has a
life of its own.

>                                                               obviously, but consider the President and the Army Secretary. They will ask HP to perfuse VMS for how long?

The current sitting President and the incoming SecDef can not even
spell VMS.

bill

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