[Info-vax] Updated HPE/VSI OpenVMS V8.4-2L1 Marketing Brochures

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On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 6:22:30 PM UTC-4, IanD wrote:
> I was also sort of hoping that vsi might have found a way to easily bring all those alpha systems out there across to the newer and better world but that was a naive fantasy on my behalf

We announced at Boot Camp this week that we will doing an 8.4-2L1 release for Alpha. We will get more information out as soon as we have completed the detailed planning.

> OpenVMS is still closed in its core, I think it's going to be a hard slog trying to get the next round of young minds interested in the platform. Maybe if VSI pitched it as Please help us transform VMS to an open source offering then you may attract people on a philosophical reasoning but to transform OpenVMS to open source itself or at least to a point where open sourcing sees OpenVMS as a desirable target for the greater world of developers beyond OpenVMS zealots, is years in the making. 
> 

The VSI/HPE agreement does not allow us to make VMS open source.