[Info-vax] IBM Layoffs

[David Froble]

JF Mezei wrote:
> On 15-01-26 14:39, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> Hosting VMS, for VMS customers.  This opportunity is pretty obvious for 
>> a vendor with licensing rights to VMS and related products, 
>> particularly if the vendor can create and manage pairs of data centers 
>> located within range of clustering and HBVS, and preferably on separate 
>> electric and communications grids and drainages. 
> 
> It depends on the needs of the installed base. Hard to outsource to a
> distant data centre  a VMS host that drives machinery with
> analogue/digital interfaces etc.
> 
> 
> Also poses challenges when you want to provide remote data centre to a
> company that has high security/privacy requirements and not too keen on
> having someone else manage their systems.
> 
> It depends on what is left of the VMS installed base and what they are
> intending to do. This is where Sue kicks in, knowing who the customers
> want and buying them expensive lunches and trips to Disney/Caribeean or
> lunch in Paris to find out what the VMS customer bases is thinking,
> desiring for VMS. :-)
> 
> 

Are you perhaps campaigning for a free vacation?