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

[abrsvc]

On Monday, May 14, 2018 at 4:31:19 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2018-05-14, pcoviello at gmail.com <pcoviello at gmail.com> wrote:
> > curiosity got to me and I contacted my reseller on this and they were told
> > that L3 was transferred/outsourced to VSI and L1 and L2 is still with HPE. 
> >
> 
> Hmmm. That doesn't seem to be compatible with HPE retaining VMS
> Engineering in India and is the opposite of what we have been
> told. If L3 were going to VSI instead of L1/L2, I would have
> expected it to be because HPE VMS Engineering was also being made
> redundant and all engineering effort was being transferred to VSI.
> 
> HPE chopping out a level in the middle (L3) and then keeping HPE VMS
> Engineering doesn't seem to make sense. I would expect HPE to either
> transfer L1/L2 and keep L3/HPE VMS Engineering or keep L1/L2 and
> transfer L3/HPE VMS Engineering to VSI.
> 
> Simon.
> 
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> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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As far as I know, there are no more patches scheduled to be released by HPE.  They will retain phone support for their customers, but as far as fixing anything, that has been relegated to  VSI.  At least that is my understanding.

Dan