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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 05/08/2018 08:26 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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).
> 

Sticking to the DEC theme.....  :-)

How long was Mentec around?

How suddenly did they just disappear.

Where did that leave all the PDP-11 customers (and, yes, there
are still a lot of places still using PDP-11's for real work!)

And a comment on another part of this thread.  It was mentioned that
people would stay with a vendor because they were large enough to sue.
Is that really the kind of customer vendors should be signing contracts
with?

bill