[Info-vax] Dead links at HP's OpenVMS site (no surprise here)

[MG]

On 25-jan-2013 13:17, Neil Rieck wrote:
> Dead links at HP's OpenVMS site (no surprise here). Okay so I was
> just at HP's OpenVMS site:

See, that's your first big mistake: Thinking you can find anything
there, or was it a moment of sheer optimism?


> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/freeware/index.html

Ah yes, the ~1999 legacy software curiosity ward.  Really business-
oriented heavy stuff, for the discerning enterprise retro-computing
go-getter.


> Then I clicked on the OpenVMS hobbyist link which takes you here:
>
> http://www.openvmshobbyist.org/
>
> Which is the address for the following one-liner:
>
> "www.openvmshobbyist.org is no longer available as an openvms
> resource"

A polite "namaste" sure would've been nice...


> So let me this this straight: Nobody at HP has been designated to
> check content, including links, at their official site? Wow, they
> really don't give damn about the VMS/OpenVMS product or community.

HP says that VMS is not part of "the future" and they just so happen
to dictate it.  So, I guess that's tough luck for the product and its
community.

Would it be any consolation to you that HP is also treating HP-UX
and other 'not-so-prized-possessions' quite similarly?  Or maybe we
should hope that HP "discontinues" VMS, so that they can 'recontinue'
it; you know, like what they did with their PC workstations.

  - MG