Shane Robison, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology 
Officer, is responsible for shaping HP's overall corporate strategy and 
technology agenda is leaving the company on Nov. 1st.

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/company-information/executive-team/robison.html

No friend of VMS, he won't be missed. 

John Smith (who cares if I'm the one @ HP - if here's even still there)
wrote:
> Shane Robison, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology 
> No friend of VMS, he won't be missed. 

So, Livermore is shunted to the Board. Robison is out.

Even of those big barriers are removed, the question remains on whether
HP has any intentions to leverage its own OSs, and if there is anyone
left within HP to champion VMS.

if the VMS group in India is but a small shadow of what used to be the
real VMS engineering (in both numbers and/or experience), there might be
no point in deciding to leverage VMS if HP no longer has the expertise
to do more than maintain the product.

On Oct 20, 9:37=A0pm, "John Smith \(who cares if I'm the one @ HP - if
here's even still there\)" <a...@nonymous.com> wrote:
> Shane Robison, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Technology
> Officer, is responsible for shaping HP's overall corporate strategy and
> technology agenda is leaving the company on Nov. 1st.
>
> http://www8.hp.com/us/en/company-information/executive-team/robison.html
>
> No friend of VMS, he won't be missed.

Well, this is the better link:

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111020c.html?mtxs=3Drss-corp-n=
ews

Let's not look at his laurel but at the real announcement of his
retirement.

Bill.

BillPedersen wrote:

> http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111020c.html?mtxs=rss-corp-news
> 
> Let's not look at his laurel but at the real announcement of his
> retirement.


I've always distrusted him and Livermore because I felt those two were
instrumental in dismissing the potetial for VMS. This is just a feeling.
I have no hard data to support this.

The fact that they are not replacing him tells me they realised that
they shouldn't place all their eggs in one person who decides the fate
of all products.


There is the possibiity that HP are removing those who were roadblocks
to the success of BCS. Just a possibility. What remains to be seen is
whether Meg Whitman will issue a new "direction" report to show where HP
intends to go, this time making mention of the BCS products and Itanium
(something which was omitted from Apotheker's document).

This doesn't mean we'll see a revival of VMS. But it might mean that its
future (or lack thereof) will be clearer. Less uncertainty is better.

On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:37:03 -0400, John Smith \(who cares if I'm the one
@ HP - if here's even still there\) wrote:

> Shane Robison, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and
> Technology Officer, is responsible for shaping HP's overall corporate
> strategy and technology agenda is leaving the company on Nov. 1st.
> 
> http://www8.hp.com/us/en/company-information/executive-team/robison.html
> 
> No friend of VMS, he won't be missed.

Once described by The Register as someone you would hide the cutlery from 
if he came to visit.

Here we go, from 2002:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/08/
alphacide_yesterday_yamhill_tomorrow_hp/

"For a start, he can play the part of a tech villain from central 
casting: a vaudeville baddy so malevolent that the audience starts 
hissing as soon as he comes on stage. Kitted out like a Southern 
plantation dandy, Robison can put out a small house fire with a glare. 
And having run AT&T's research division, and endured seven years as a VP 
at Apple - again looking after research - he's clearly damn smart and 
knows how to survive and prosper in the games of executive politics. 
You'd want to hire him as an assassin… then hide all the cutlery."

....

"Robison was CTO at Compaq, so let him tell the story."


-- 
Paul Sture