[Info-vax] Reimplementing VMS, was: Re: HP adds OpenVMS Mature Product Support beyond the end of Standard Support

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-02-03 20:14, JF Mezei wrote:
> On 14-02-03 20:39, David Froble wrote:
>
>> Since you claim that HP is paying Intel to produce IA-64, then Intel
>> will lose that money because HP is giving up on it's products.  To then
>> pay HP on top of that loss ???????????
>
> This is why timing is important.
>
> Consider the steps:
>
> Intel goes to HP., wants to throw in the towel and discusses possible
> IA64 exit strategies.
>
> To prepare for such discussion, HP has to look at feasability and costs
> of porting BCS to 8086.
>
> Cue the then CTO Shane Robison who felt everything was heading commodity
> Linux/Windows for servers. How much longer do HP-UX/VMS/NSK have ?, how
> much does it cost to port ?, how much does it cost to extend lifetime of
> Itanic to more or less match expected lifetime of HP-UX ?.
>
> Evidently, HP decided to pay Intel to extend the life of IA64 about
> about 10 years. Part of this involves lies and deceit to continue to
> pretend that IA64 is successfull and has bright lifetime ahead of it.
>
> Because of those lies and deceit, HP knows it has many ghosts who could
> come back to haunt it. The Oracle lawsuit being a good example. So it
> really doesn't want any leaks of what really happened and wouldn't want
> names of engineers involved in the port evaluation pilot projects to
> become public. Imagine if Oracle had brought some of them as witnesses !
>
> Johnnny Billquist's message is as follows: he has a friend was involved
> in this mess and knows how drastic the punishement would be on him
> should this become public, so he wants this discussion to end ASAP.
>
> If the full story of this ever came out, it would be a disaster of
> Itanic proportions when one considers how much money will have been sunk
> in IA64, how much HP lied about it, and why Intel was able to claim it
> was profitable (since HP was paying huges amounts of money for IA64).

Say what??? You are making assumptions, and now also claim that I'm a 
part of this conspiracy that you cooked up.
I am becoming speechless. You are really clueless.

	Johnny