[Info-vax] VMS support is being transferred from HPE to VSI

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-05-07, DaveFroble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> Jairo Alves wrote:
>> 
>> 2 cents: We have HPE contracts for Proliant Servers as well as Itanium Servers. Also, there's a history of doing business with HP that many areas find more "dependable" because it's a big, established company.
>

Thanks for confirming what I have been saying about this.

> A "big established company", that apparently doesn't give a damn about it's 
> customers, yeah, I can see how that could be desirable.
>

Much of the time, that doesn't matter to the customer's employee who
signed the contract.

What mostly matters is that employee can tell their boss they signed
a contract with a large company that is still going to be around,
either directly or as part of a merged organisation, in 5-10 years.

That employee doesn't have to take a risk on signing a contract with
a small and recently established vendor (VSI) that may not exist in
a few years (at least in the eyes of the employee when they are
considering their pension and future employability when deciding
whether to take a risk on going with a small vendor or to play it safe
by going with a large one).

Simon.

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