[Info-vax] OpenVMS in the future, Open sourced or Closed? Intent is to keep it...

[Javier Henderson]

> On May 4, 2015, at 7:30 AM, seasoned_geek via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:
> 
> On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 2:12:45 AM UTC-5, Paul Sture wrote:
>> 
>> From VSI_DrawerSt_v2.pdf dated 12-Sep-2014:
>> 
>> "VSI's second effort is dedicated to securing the future growth of the
>> OpenVMS platform. VSI recognizes that the overwhelming hardware platform
>> of choice for mission critical applications run on Intel X86 hardware.
>> We also believe that the future health of the platform requires
>> innovative new products in new market segments that could benefit from
>> OpenVMS' key strengths. Specifically:
>> 
>> * VSI will develop new releases of OpenVMS for the industry-standard X86
>> hardware platform. VSI's R&D group is already working on X86 plans.
>> VSI's Director of R&D formerly headed HP's engineering team that ported
>> OpenVMS from DEC Alpha to HP Integrity.
>> 
> 
> 
> Once it is on the x86 it will have a life span of 15 minutes.

What do you mean?

-jav