[Info-vax] Micro Focus Merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Software Business Segment

[David Froble]

Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2016-09-08, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> I'm going to assume (yeah, I know, that's bad) that HP doesn't have VMS to 
>> transfer to anyone anymore.  Perhaps the VSI agreement wasn't exclusive, but 
>> even then, who would work on it?
>>
> 
> HP still have their version of VMS Engineering in India working on
> the HP version of VMS.
> 
>> Or are you thinking that Micro Focus will be re-selling the VSI product?
>>
> 
> No. Until Kerry made it clear what was going on, I thought that HP
> would be selling their version of VMS on IA64 and the infrastructure
> to go with it to Micro Focus. Don't forget that HP are still actively
> supporting VMS on IA64 until the end of 2020.
> 
> Simon.
> 

Yeah, with a call to VSI ....