[Info-vax] New HP OpenVMS Web Site, Web Site Reorganization, Broken Links

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER]

In article <mi82aj$mij$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>For those that have not already noticed it, HP appears to be in the 
>process of deploying a new OpenVMS web site on a new host web server.

Thanks for the hint.

>The responses to the http://www.hp.com/go/openvms shortcut are now 
>returning web pages from the http://www8.hp.com server.

It was http://openvms.compaq.com for me (for many years) and its over now.
(It used to forward to http://h71000.www7.hp.com - which is also gone).

>That's from my location.   HP may well have other web servers involved 
>with serving these pages, based on load, geography, phase of the moon, 
>or any number of other factors.

Dito.

>Link continuity was apparently not implemented, or not completely 
>implemented.   This means that existing http://h71000.www7.hp.com 
>references go... nowhere.  You're going to be seeing a whole lot of 
>dangling links, until the search engines catch up with the new web site 
>location and organization.

What search engines? HP's? Are you kidding?

>New main page is 
>http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/servers/openvms/overview.html
>
>No idea what else has changed, but I'd not be surprised that some 
>information has not made the transition.
>
>Parts of the old server are still active, however: 
>http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/doc still goes to the h71000.www7.hp.com 
>server.
>
>Unfortunately, at least some of the cached, direct requests into the 
>h71000.www7.hp.com web server are also being intercepted with the HP 
>"Oops. We can't find that page for you." errors, based on the results 
>of some recent web searches.   Some of (many of?  all of?) the link 
>references from the existing and reachable parts of the 
>h71000.www7.hp.com web server are also broken.
>
>This is all sorts of a mess right now — page links broken all over the place.

Who did expect otherwise from HPQ?

Sigh

PS: Why not handing over the VMS website to VSI instead of killing it? HPsUX
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Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTÖGER
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