[Info-vax] Layered products, the HP view !?!

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 16:34:58 UTC+1, David Froble  wrote:
> Dirk Munk wrote:
> 
> > Well, we have a big HP office in the Netherlands with support. In fact 
> > there are still OpenVMS sessions held in that office! I'm sure you can 
> > find it on Google Earth (Startbaan 16, Amstelveen).
> 
> What you want, and what HP will be willing to do in the future, just 
> might not be the same thing.
> 
> What I find a bit hard to believe is that anyone still has any trust in HP.
> 
> Maybe P.T. Barnum was right ....

If someone's purchasing decisions have to be compatible with an
Approved Suppliers List generated by a corporate purchasing
department (or Strategic Supply Chain department or whatever),
it's actually probably easier to buy from HP or an approved HP
reseller than it is to buy from a competent company who are
unknown to the Strategic Supply Chain people.

It's not good, but it's reality in a lot of places.