[Info-vax] Important technology announcement from HP and VSI?

[clairgrant71 at gmail.com]

On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 10:12:58 PM UTC-4, Bob Gezelter wrote:
> On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 8:54:33 PM UTC-4, johnso... at gmail.com wrote:
> > A link to this popped up on twitter earlier today.
> > 
> > The url is a little silly looking.
> > 
> > http://info.hp.com/w/webView?cid=23373033598&mid=1086823382&pid=2319932&vid=13597&ee=amVubmlmZXIubGluYWNyZUBocC5jb20_&si=1&mv=H&bv=H&oc=N&sc=&k=10nvlM
> 
> From the phrasing (and timing), I would presume that these sessions are centered around the imminent general release to OpenVMS IA64 8.4 1H1 for Poulson. Remember, Field Test is not a general release.
> 
> I hate to dash JF's hopes, but while Duane is likely to mention x64, the team just got 8.4 1H1 built and working on Poulson. There is quite a bit of work for them to accomplish before they can put a date out for x64 support.
> 
> The above is my personal opinion. While it is informed by knowledge of what must be accomplished, I do not have any inside information on this subject. 
> 
> - Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

Duane Harris and John Egolf will be in Australia to update everyone on how we are doing and generally answering questions and addressing concerns. I don't think there is any big announcement being made. (If there is, it will be news to me.) It should be similar to what Duane and I did in Germany last November. How does the HP/VSI partnership work? What to expect in the future, when do you expect to place orders, etc.

I can't let "the team just got 8.4 1H1 built and working on Poulson" slip by. We have been running on i4 systems for months now. The "we built a kit DVD" recently caused a little confusion. Figuring out new kitting and new licensing details has taken us as long as building and running VMS itself. The changes necessary to change PAKs' "producer" from HP to VSI and to change kits' names from HP...... to VSI..... and bump the version number and implement a new version of digital signing are mind numbing. We are almost done. This is our week of cleanup before we go to Field Test 4/8.