Powerhouse 7.10/8.30 VMS upgrade (survey results - sort of)

[Pickering, John (NORBORD)]

Do any of you know the status of Compaq's efforts to obtain certification by
the US Gov't military empire and its contractors of OpenVMS as "DII COE"
compliant"?

For more info please see
http://www.openvms.compaq.com/solutions/government/coe/

My reading of this suggests that Compaq wanted the Gov't certification,
which, among other things, requires something like a 20 year commitment.
Either they got it before the HP merger and now HP has to deliver on the
commitment or HP sees some potential in a 20 year product line. It has also
been suggested that the port of OpenVMS to IA64 isn't such a big deal since
most of the tough grunt work was done moving from VAX to Alpha.

I wouldn't count OpenVMS out yet. But I wouldn't go out and buy a new one
today either, knowing who currently owns it.

Regards,
JWP

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Witkopp, Richard [SMTP:Richard.Witkopp@idt.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:39 PM
> To:	'PowerHouse List (E-mail)'
> Subject:	RE: Powerhouse 7.10/8.30 VMS upgrade (survey results - sort
> of)
> 
> So why would they spend all that money? HP is not the
> devious sort. They plan to bag MPE (?) and said so to
> the world. If they wanted to bag VMS they had the perfect
> opportunity. It would not have been a big shock to
> anybody if they had announced it when they acquired Compaq.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Al Karman [mailto:alkarman@wideopenwest.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 10:22 AM
> > To: 'PowerHouse List (E-mail)'
> > Subject: RE: Powerhouse 7.10/8.30 VMS upgrade (survey results 
> > - sort of)
> > 
> > 
> > FWIW, I'd be particularly careful reading anything into anything else.
> > HP and their sponsorship of product lines <HP3000> is open to healthy
> > mistrust.  Continuation of the VMS port to Itanium is just 
> > that...a VMS
> > port and nothing else.
> > 
> > Al Karman
> > Lady Remington Jewelry
> > alk@lady remington jewelry dot.com
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: powerh-l-admin@cube.swau.edu 
> > [mailto:powerh-l-admin@cube.swau.edu]
> > On Behalf Of Witkopp, Richard
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 11:55 AM
> > To: PowerHouse List (E-mail)
> > Subject: RE: Powerhouse 7.10/8.30 VMS upgrade (survey results 
> > - sort of)
> > 
> > 
> > Itanium (nee Merced) will be around for awhile, if for
> > no other reason than HP's sponsorship, which they took on
> > long before acquiring Compaq. That they are continuing the
> > VMS port to Itanium indicates the Alpha platform will live
> > on for at least a bit.
> > 
>