For those of you who want to see more OpenVMS in the news, simply pass
along any information you have about companies doing projects with
OpenVMS (which don't violate your non-disclosure agreements.)
Anything I can tie one or more ticker symbols to I can blog about and
have it be syndicated at many news sites.

We can make OpenVMS relevant again.

All it takes is for us to tell the world about all of the new
development, even if those factions at HP which keep getting the
company dragged before Congressional Inquiries keep telling the world
they've stopped development.

seasoned_geek wrote:

> We can make OpenVMS relevant again.
> 
> All it takes is for us to tell the world about all of the new
> development, even if those factions at HP which keep getting the
> company dragged before Congressional Inquiries keep telling the world
> they've stopped development.


Sorry to be the party pooper on this but...

 The oly way to make VMS relevant would be to wait for some major system
failure that make the news (stock exchange down etc) and then point to
reporters that HP had a solution for this called VMS which allowed
clustering over distant sites and that if VMS had been used, this
systems failyre wouldn't have been noticed, however HP never leveraged
its potential and has told cutsomer since 2001 that HP expects VMS
customer to migrate away from VMS in their own due time.


With a roadmap that no longer commits any new VMS version, you would
have very little credibility stating that there are new developments in
the works for VMS.

I hope it goes well - do watch www.openvms.org and twitter for news.

On Dec 17, 4:53=A0pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam...@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> seasoned_geek wrote:
> > We can make OpenVMS relevant again.
>
> > All it takes is for us to tell the world about all of the new
> > development, even if those factions at HP which keep getting the
> > company dragged before Congressional Inquiries keep telling the world
> > they've stopped development.
>
> Sorry to be the party pooper on this but...
>
> =A0The oly way to make VMS relevant would be to wait for some major syste=
m
> failure that make the news (stock exchange down etc) and then point to
> reporters that HP had a solution for this called VMS which allowed
> clustering over distant sites and that if VMS had been used, this
> systems failyre wouldn't have been noticed, however HP never leveraged
> its potential and has told cutsomer since 2001 that HP expects VMS
> customer to migrate away from VMS in their own due time.
>
> With a roadmap that no longer commits any new VMS version, you would
> have very little credibility stating that there are new developments in
> the works for VMS.

I said new developments with VMS, not "for" it.

Given the typical quality of Indian software development I fully
expect any future version will be HP's VISTA...well...it would be...if
they didn't already have a bigger industry laughing stock in HP-
UX...the operating system thrown out lock-stock-and-four-smoking-
barrels by China's major stock exchange.

On 12/17/2011 5:53 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> seasoned_geek wrote:
>> We can make OpenVMS relevant again.
>>
>> All it takes is for us to tell the world about all of the new
>> development, even if those factions at HP which keep getting the
>> company dragged before Congressional Inquiries keep telling the world
>> they've stopped development.
>
>
> Sorry to be the party pooper on this but...
>
>   The oly way to make VMS relevant would be to wait for some major system
> failure that make the news (stock exchange down etc) and then point to
> reporters that HP had a solution for this called VMS which allowed
> clustering over distant sites and that if VMS had been used, this
> systems failyre wouldn't have been noticed,

HP would not need to push VMS to provide such a solution.

Practically any technology could provide that functionality
(they would not use OS clustering to achieve it, but that
is not particular relevant).

Arne

On 12/19/2011 3:52 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> Given the typical quality of Indian software development I fully
> expect any future version will be HP's VISTA...well...it would be...

Careful there... Clusters over IP was written in India, among other things.

Seems to me a remastered DVD such as we recently saw for 8.4 that 
includes support for the latest Integrity hardware, but doesn't have all 
the re-qualification implications that a version 8.4-1H1 or certainly an 
8.5 DVD would have had, is not necessarily a bad idea.