[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

John Wallace wrote:
> 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 However they've all been replaced by commodity drones with just a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.

Now, since VMS development hasn't been outsourced, this is of no
particual relevance. Now, if the VMS development realy had been
outsourced, I'd been a bit more concerned.