[Info-vax] The dangers of being too emotionally involved, was: Re: How about RdB for x86 VMS?

[Keith Parris]

On 9/4/2014 5:30 AM, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 September 2014 04:56:51 UTC+1, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> [snip]
>
> "In the past five weeks, an additional company with a new team of
> developers are starting work on VMS"
>
> Minor rewording?
>
> ".., an additional company with a new team headed by and largely
> composed of tried tested and industry-proven architects and
> developers are resuming their previous work on VMS."
>
> Or something like that, even though it's more words, because it's
> important to emphasize the pedigree of the players vs HP's previous
> approach?

VSI's press release at 
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/vms-software-inc-named-exclusive-developer-of-future-versions-of-openvms-operating-system-2014-07-31 
did say:

"VSI has assembled an onshore team of veteran OpenVMS developers, many 
harking back to the core DEC team responsible for the technical 
excellence that has been the hallmark of OpenVMS."