[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[JF Mezei]

Neil Rieck wrote:

> is inevitable. Who knows, maybe selling OpenVMS will be necessary one
> day in order for HP to balance their books after a bad year of PC
> sales.


Did HP sell MPE ? Did it sell True64 ? Nop, it just let them die.

You mentioned passion. Look at the one jewel they got from compaq: the
Ipaq. HP was originally passionate enough about it that it killed its
onw PDA and focused on the Ipaq and turned it into a smart phone. But it
lost passion, let the IPAQ wither away and now they are essentially out
of the market. Heck, Carly even tried to sell ipods instead of upgrading
the ipaq to become a "walkman" as well as a pda.