[Info-vax] 2013 OpenVMS Boot Camp

[JohnF]

Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
> DTL <didier.morandi at gmail.com> writes:
>> VMS is dead, buried and forgotten. Well, not for the US DOD, 
> Any use of VMS within DOD is minimal and trivial.

I know nothing about it, but thought a large part of the
reason for HP's ongoing VMS support was very long term
contractual support obligations to DOD inherited from DEC.
Is that not right? Or, if right, what's the short version
of those obligations? And how quickly is VMS support likely
to fade away after they expire?
   Actually, HP's support of the VMS hobbyist program seems
unexpectedly pleasant, so to speak, and I doubt it falls
under any DOD contract requirement. So it's hard, at least
for me, to infer HP's exact attitude towards VMS.
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j at f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )