[Info-vax] VMS Software Inc. OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 Boots on i4 System

[clairgrant71 at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 1:09:51 PM UTC-4, JF Mezei wrote:
> On 15-03-17 10:24, clairgrant71 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> >  what we sent to the HP Team in India six years ago isn't exactly what we got back a few months ago. 
> 
> Out of curiosity, physically, how was stuff transfered ? Were VMS
> sources and procedures saved to a saveset, moved to a DVD or two and
> shipped FedEx ?  Downloaded over internet ?
> 
> Was there a lot of "you forgot to include xxx" in the process where
> multiple shipments were necessary ?
> 
> Or were you given access to their system and you packaged the stuff
> youselves and downloaded it over internet ?

I'll add a little to what Rob said. First, only HP employees are allowed on HP development systems so the HP Team did all the work. At HP's request we had two engineers there observing, but mostly learning how things were being packaged for us. Seven tapes were mailed from India on a Monday morning and we had them in hand at noon on Wednesday.  The HP Team put weeks of preparation work into the transfer and had many legal restrictions on what they could do. Given the very unusual circumstances we could not have expected much more from the technical team. Was it perfect? No. Would we have liked some things to have been done differently? Sure. But here we are just days away from going into final qual for Field Test. There are still difficult technical and legal issues to be worked but this was (is still) a daunting exchange and things are continuing to move forward.