[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[seasoned_geek]

On Oct 27, 4:24 pm, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
wrote:
>
> > HP OpenVMS Engineering has been outsourced to India.
>
> No, it has been *moved* to the HP development center in India.
> Not outsourced. You have to read up some on "outsourcing".
> I guess you are thinking about "offshoring" which is something
> else (and more in line with the move of VMS to India)
>

Last time I looked at the SEC filings, HP-India was a separate
company, so it really has been outsourced.


>
> And if more can be done for VMS at a lower cost, why would
> anyone complain ?

You get what you pay for.  Lower cost = lower quality 99.999999% of
the time.  I've done a lot of work for Fortunate 50 clients.  Not one
has had a project turned in by an off-shore team which was an actual
success.  Everyone of them "redefined success" and shredded the
documentation after the project was delivered so they could tell
everybody how much money they were saving.  One such company just
reached a settllement with the SEC involving giving back a lot of
bonus money and people pleading guilty to civil charges.

OpenVMS is not a puddle of feces like HP-UX.  You can't draw from the
same pool.  One in 10,000 developers worldwide has the chops to do
OpenVMS Engineering.  I don't even put myself in that league.  The
people qualified to do that work do not come cheap.  The people
qualified to work on HP-UX engineering can be recruited from the same
labor pool which is stacking boxes on the Walmart loading dock.

OpenVMS is the OS you turn to when it posolutely-absitively _has_ to
work.  Steel mills, paper mills, missile defense systems, etc.  When
the company supporting it chooses to use the same hacks they have
working on HP-UX and Linux, it dramatically reduces the quality of the
product.