The HP Product Roadmaps White Paper
(http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/07may02b.htm) contains the
following:

"HP also will deliver on the previously announced Compaq OpenVMS roadmap,
including the port to Itanium."

Of course we all know that this promise, like others in the past, is subject
to change by the "new" HP.

> From: Ron Seybold [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>
> Hello Friends:
>
> Duane Percox writes:
>
> "And vms customers get to keep their openvms, as it will be ported to
> ia-64 as previously announced."
>
> I've been through five outside analysis articles and three Web sites,
> including HP's, this morning. I visited OpenVMS.org and Shannon Knows
> [Compaq/HPC]. I didn't spot this OpenVMS announcement. Maybe Duane
> can share the source of his confirmation of this information?
>
> OpenVMS is important to a 3000 customer reading tea leaves about
> their future with HP. CSY tells us that proprietary operating
> environments -- I bet VMS qualifies as one of those -- are declining
> in popularity. Watching what HP does with VMS should confirm that CSY
> viewpoint about non-standard technologies, right?
>
> Or is it an HP viewpoint about the non-standard technologies which HP
> hasn't been able to sell lately?

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