[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[FredK]

"seasoned_geek" <roland at logikalsolutions.com> wrote in message 
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On Oct 27, 12:03 pm, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
wrote:
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> Maybe India but still HP so not outsourced.

HP OpenVMS Engineering has been outsourced to India.

    Outsourcing implies the work is done by an outside company.  The 
engineering group in India, which has worked on various parts of VMS for 
years, is part of HP.

What makes you believe HP has even one U.S. citizen still working on
OpenVMS development?

    How about the word of one of them?

Everybody that was qualified to work on it got
laid off and replaced by people from the $10/day labor pool.

    I understand the sentiment of offshoring work from the US to other 
countries for cost reasons.  However, you apparently lack any actual 
experience with the individuals and organizational support.  Regardless of 
what you feel about the flight of jobs to India (which is a economy wide 
thing), the actual people are well educated, smart, motivated, hard working, 
and highly capable.

It shouldn't take them long to reduce the quality of OpenVMS down to that
of HP-UX.

    Disparaging remarks about the #1 UNIX aside, I suggest putting off the 
doom-and-gloom based on speculation.