[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[John Wallace]

On Oct 27, 2:57 am, Arne Vajhøj <a... at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> JF Mezei wrote:
> > HP will milk VMS support revenues until it is dry. And they may even get
> > a small percentage who move from VMS to some HP systems.
>
> > There is no reason for HP to sell VMS.
>
> Sure there is. If someone is willing to pay more dollars than HP believe
> they can make keeping VMS.
>
>  >                                       And with a scaled down el-cheapo
>
> > VMS maintenance team in India, they don't have to spend much to be able
> > to continue to sell lucrative support contracts.
>
> > And from a buyer's point of view, there is no reason for anyone to buy
> > VMS anymore. There might have been when VMS had a whole slew of very
> > valuable engineers and people like Sue who knew the customers personally.
>
> > However they've all been replaced by commodity drones with just a
> > handful of experienced people left. So there is no value left in it.
>
> They got the job, because they deliver the most value for the money.
>
> Are you being flooded by requests for VMS work because they can
> not deliver?
>
> And BTW Oracle outsource to India as well.
>
> Arne

Arne says "They got the job, because they deliver the most value for
the money."

The real world knows "They got the job, because they promised the most
value for the money.".

Outsourcers in general promise high and deliver unpredictably. By the
time any organisation finds out what kind of outsourcer they've
actually got, as distinct from what they were promised, it may be too
late to undo any harm.