[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <4ae65be4$0$269$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
	Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> JF Mezei wrote:
>> If you are B, and you don't like A, and you know that C will be killing
>> A, it is to your advantage to publically be nice to A. This way, when C
>> kills A, you don't get blamed for A's death.
>> 
>> Translation: If Oracle knows that HP is letting go of VMS, it can afford
>> to appear to publically support VMS since it will help its image and
>> cost it nothing, while HP will be blamed for VMS' death.
> 
> And?
> 
> Nobody believe that HP will announce the end of VMS withing the next few
> years, so HP will not tell Oracle that they will do so. Making the
> analysis basicly an "if(false) then".
 
Formal announcement is not necessary for the death of a product.
For example, when was the death of RSX-11 formally announced?
(as of about a year ago all formal sales and maintenance were stopped.)

bill

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