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

[David Froble]

Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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
> 

JF is now moving into his "special zone" ....