[Info-vax] 2013 OpenVMS Boot Camp

[JohnF]

Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
> JohnF <john at please.see.sig.for.email.com> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> That was the story a decade or so ago.

Okay, so is/was that story correct, or not?
(and thanks for the additional info below...)

> There may of course be systems 
> in use which are not seen by normal military staff, but are critical for 
> the manufacture and testing of military hardware.  Planes tend to have a 
> fairly long lifespan, and that can get extended beyond original plans.
> 
>>    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.
> 
> There are probably many flavours of attitude within a corporation as 
> large as HP.

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John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j at f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )