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

[David Froble]

seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 3:05:56 AM UTC-5, Paul Sture wrote:
>> If the build process is as well documented as the rest of the VMS then I
>> would expect that someone competent with similar toolchains (and
>> obviously VMS itself) would be able to get there, though obviously not
>> as quickly as someone with direct experience of the build process.
>>
>> It was after all transferred to India and back.
>>
> 
> I'm not so certain about that. While coding was sent there, I'm not so certain the full build process was being done there. This is HP we speak of. A company which announces they are getting out of the PC business without first finding a buyer for the division. Just because they "announced" development moved to India doesn't mean there wasn't some red headed step child chained in a basement somewhere in America forced to run nightly builds.

Anyone who has been reading c.o.v for a while might remember the post by 
VSI that they had people in India to get the VMS sources, build 
commands, and such.  (Unless I dreamed the post)

So, yes, it was happening in India ....