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

[Dirk Munk]

clairgrant71 at gmail.com wrote:
>> The roadmap says "Two releases are planned between V8.4-1H1 and V9.0".
>> Those two would also be Itanium releases. If any of them happens to
>> contain anything else besides of new hardware support (that is, some
>> new real functionality in the OS or LPs), then one can re-evaluate
>> what one is running. It might even be worthwhile to upgrade to 8.41Hn
>> even if you are not running newer (i4) hardware, just becuse of the new
>> functionality offered in OS and LPs.
>
> Precisely. The main reason for these two releases is for SW improvements.
> A new HW platform arriving is a coincidence of the timing.
>
>>
>> I might have missed something, but right now with the current 8.41H1,
>> if you are *not* on i4 hardware, I see little reason to not stay on
>> current 8.4. What will running 8.41H1 in i2 servers give you?
>
> You will have to ask the customers. We got numerous requests to support 1H1
> on some pre-i2 systems, e.g. rx2660, and we are.
>

HP will still support their version of OpenVMS for several years to 
come. Now what happens if HP OpenVMS or a layered products needs to be 
patched. Will VSI write the patch and supply it to HP as well as to its 
own version of the product? It wouldn't be a good thing of course if HP 
would continue (well, continue.... :-) ) to write their own patches.