[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[norm.raphael at metso.com]

seasoned_geek <roland at logikalsolutions.com>  wrote on 10/27/2009 12:36:58 
PM:

> On Oct 27, 7:55 am, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Last I saw HP shredded OpenVMS Engineering into a non-existent
> department.  It's all-India-all-the-time now...at least until they get
> even lower paid workers at the China facility to replace the Indian
> workers.  Skill and quality doesn't matter.  It's like those long
> distance commercials we used to see in the 1980s...cheap cheap cheap
> cheap cheap.

I don't have a dog in this hunt, but either cite specific examples 
of problems you've encountered or stop pre-judging the new folks and 
in any case don't count other people's money.  That's just plain 
gauche.