[Info-vax] Apparent OpenVMS Documentation URL on HPE.COM

[Neil Rieck]

On Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 2:40:25 PM UTC-5, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 12/1/2018 1:00 PM, Neil Rieck wrote:
> > On Sunday, November 25, 2018 at 3:54:32 PM UTC-5, Bob Gezelter wrote:
> >> In wandering around the WWW using Google, I noticed the following page:
> >>
> >> https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=a00058693en_us
> >>
> >> To all appearances, the document seems to be a rather long (35 page) list of OpenVMS-related documentation.
> >>
> >> No idea if it is officially supported, but for the moment, useful.
> >>
> >> - Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com
> >
> > I have always found it troubling that HP/HPE has been deleting files for more that a decade. For example, there used to be a DEC Museum on http://www.openvms.compaq.com/ which featured articles by DEC's Gordon Bell. All that stuff was turfed by HP/HPE.
> >
> > On the flip side, lots of stuff about PDP and VAX can still be found at Microsoft where Gordon Bell and Dave Cutler are two of many DECies still employed there. I just checked some of my bookmarks and can see that some documents have been moved to Microsoft's cloud but at least they were not deleted.
> >
> > https://research.microsoft.com/~gbell/Digital/DECMuseum.htm
> >
> > Now many large companies, including HP and HPE, have their own cloud technology which makes storage really inexpensive. So I am still wondering HP/HPE is deleting stuff.
> >
> > Neil Rieck
> > Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
> > http://neilrieck.net
> >
> 
> 1) don't care
> 2) actively dislike
> 
> Take your pick
> 
> HP and DEC used to be rivals.  Perhaps some HP types think they have 
> won, and want to do away with anything DEC.
> 
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Some of the delete activity by HP is related to marketing so I suppose I could see why they deleted all the Alpha related documentation when they began to seriously sell Itanium. But have you noticed that HPE now appears to pruning many of the Itanium service manuals?

After the big-data revolution of 2007 we were all told that storage was so cheap that there would be no reason to ever delete a file. HPE must have found a reason.

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
http://neilrieck.net/