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

[DaveFroble]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

See another post about "weasel words", and it cost money to hire attorneys, and 
HPE has lots of it's customer's money to hire lawyers.

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