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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-03-30 21:25:29 +0000, JF Mezei said:

> On 15-03-30 15:10, Bob Koehler wrote:
> 
>>> "John Egolf, OpenVMS Integrity Migration Manager"
> 
>> Third possibility:  helping customers move from VAX or Alpha onto IA64. 
>>  Itanium and Interity have a long history of being interchanged terms 
>> at HP, whether it's 100% accurate or not.
> 
> ...Has anyone attended the presentations done since the news of VSI 
> taking over VMS development started ? Has his role (or tone of 
> speeches) pointed in one direction or another ?

HP and VSI are delivering on their respective roadmaps.  HP is 
performing their ramp-down of OpenVMS.    VSI is working on their 
ramp-up of OpenVMS.

HP OpenVMS customers that require vendor support past the HP roadmap or 
that require software enhancements will either need to transition to 
another platform, or license and transition to VSI as that becomes an 
option, or license and transition to those particular VSI 
configurations that HP plans to resell and to support as that becomes 
an option.

There are pricing and support and trade-in details that'll undoubtedly 
be announced as V8.4-1H1 approaches availability, and these details 
will factor into many customer decisions for use of V8.4-1H1 and/or for 
other subsequent VSI-planned releases as those become available.

The folks I've chatted with at HP would like to see VSI succeed with 
OpenVMS, but this is up to VSI and to what and how much the OpenVMS 
customers will buy.


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