[Info-vax] HP / VSI OpenVMS breakfast event - held on 5 May 2015 - loose recap

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In article <fd5b9108-bc33-4912-b891-fa47fedf4bdb at googlegroups.com>, IanD <iloveopenvms at gmail.com> writes:
>My loose remembering's of the HP / VSI OpenVMS breakfast event on the 5 May=
> 2015
>
>For those looking for extra information about what is coming or any special=
> privileged information, click on your browser back button now, the breakfa=
>st didn't disclose anything of that nature, in fact, 99% of what has been c=
>oming out via the VSI website and/or Facebook pretty well sums it up anyhow
>
>The breakfast outline was published as:
>
>Agenda:
>7.30am - Arrive & Registration
>8:00am - Plate Breakfast Served
>8.30am - The Future of OpenVMS
>10.30am - Concludes
>
>Presenting were John Egolf, OpenVMS Integrity Migration Manager, HP OpenVMS=
> organisation and Duane Harris, CEO of VMS Software (there were others, one=
> from New Zealand whose name escapes me (sorry!!!) and Jeremy Begg of vsm s=
>oftware services acting as the representative of the OpenVMS community (sor=
>ry Jeremy I cannot remember your title)
>
>I'll try and list the things I can remember that were different from the an=
>nouncements we already know (and I guess if you've heard all this before th=
>en it's the stuff that I didn't know)
>
>Delaware are the backers (one of the backers?) of VSI (I know, this is on t=
>heir website)
>
>In the future, there 'may be' (read may be!) the possibility of a subscript=
>ion style of licencing. Many ideas are being considered, NONE beyond what h=
>as already been officially announced are available. The takeaway here is th=
>at VSI will be as flexible as they can be, where they can be
>
>The company expects to be cash positive by 2016. I don't know if this means=
> before 2016 or if it's the 2016 financial year, I just jotted down cash po=
>sitive by 2016
>
>When due diligence showed that the top 10 companies running OpenVMS in the =
>world were still wanting to stay with OpenVMS. A figure of 218 million was =
>I believe shown. I do not know if this was the OpenVMS spend by these compa=
>nies combined or if it was the IT spend of these companies combined or even=
> if it was the listed profit of these companies combined so take this infor=
>mation as you wish, I wish I could remember more but companies names were s=
>tripped from the presentation and the listing was by industry sector. Sorry=
>, this information in itself doesn't really represent much and therefore PL=
>EASE do not let it be the source of grandiose rumours and speculation!
>The take-away I believe was meant to show that VSI believe there is still g=
>ood money to be made from OpenVMS and a customer base out there that wants =
>to stay on OpenVMS
>
>A new file system is being looked at. Works started on something in 2009. T=
>hose works will be revisited. The file system was not based on anything els=
>e out there
>
>VSI are looking intently at opening up a development program
>
>Some discussion in the audience occurred around the education market. VSI r=
>eps made comments about a return to the education market
>
>A question was asked about the Hobbyist program. HP and VSI both stated tha=
>t the Hobbyist program would continue as it is today
>
>Open source is a high priority going forward and getting Java 1.8 was very =
>high on the priority list
>
>A new TCP/IP stack was mentioned. A member of the audience asked if the TCP=
>/IP stack was Progress software's stack. VSI declined to comment based on c=
>onfidentiality / NDA etc. There was NO, I repeat NO, NONE, NOTHING to indic=
>ate that the new TCP/IP stack was a licensed stack from Progress as many ar=
>e speculating
>
>The most interesting thing I found was just how much HP have been helping V=
>SI with this whole venture (which is totally different to what I thought).
>The amount of work gathering source code (all the way back to and including=
> the Vax I believe) was sourced from all over the place and off servers tha=
>t had been shut down etc so as to hand over to VSI the most complete works =
>for OpenVMS possible.=20
>The amount of effort HP must have gone through was incredible, it has total=
>ly changed by biased opinion towards HP having abandoned OpenVMS to one whe=
>re it appears that HP want VSI to be as successful as possible with their O=
>penVMS venture.=20
>The view I had was one of HP ditching OpenVMS and getting a few bucks as Op=
>enVMS is licensed out to now one of seeing HP as wanting VSI to be successf=
>ul and they seriously have done so much work in handing over OpenVMS in the=
> best form possible.=20
>John Egolf and the team of people at HP frankly left me rather gob-smacked =
>as to the effort they put in to the transformation to VSI. It really is mor=
>e of a partnership than a handover as I first thought
>
>I cannot remember the figure but someone asked how many employee's VSI have=
>.. A figure of around 61 ???? (I cannot remember) was spoken of and that num=
>ber was expected to be increased to I think 89 (again I cannot remember the=
> figure exactly) either end of this year or end of next year. The take-away=
> here was that growth was expected and planned for
>
>Sorry that so many of these points are inconclusive or lofty in hard detail=
>s but I'm trying to remember from 3 days ago and my memory isn't what it us=
>ed to be
>
>Little point asking me more, all I can remember or think I remembered is as=
> above
>
>The same session was held in Melbourne Australia on the 6th also (which I d=
>id not attend)=20
>
>If anything is wrong PLEASE make a post correcting the points OR add extra =
>information as I am sure I didn't remember everything

Was this an invite only event?  I didn't see any mention of a VSI Breakfast
Event mentioned anywhere.

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