From: William Hymen [t18_pilot@hotmail.spam.com] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 6:57 AM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Getting Compaq to advertise OpenVMS If you want to promote advertising of OpenVMS, write a letter on your Company Letterhead to the people who make the descisions at Compaq. Keep it professional and keep it to one page. Include "personal and confidential" about three lines down from the address 1)Paper is good. 2)email gets deleted. 3)Company letterheads impress. - Bill The director of OpenVMS Marketing is: Compaq Computer Corporation Mary Ellen Fortier 110 Spit Brook Road ZKO3-4/W24 Nashua, NH 03062 The Vice President of OpenVMS is: Compaq Computer Corporation Richard Marcello 110 Spit Brook Road ZKO3-4/W24 Nashua, NH 03062 The President of Compaq is: Compaq Computer Corporation Michael Capellas 20555 State Highway 249 MS110802 Houston, Texas 77070 "andrew harrison" wrote in message news:3A754989.50883B0C@uk.sun.com... > jlsue wrote: > > > > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:08:44 +0000, andrew harrison > > wrote: > > > > >Secondly Compaq spends virtually nothing on OpenVMS this > > >considerably assists it in being profitable. If Compaq > > >wanted to increase OpenVMS's revenues they would have to > > >invest and the payback would not be immediate or > > >guaranteed. This consideration may explain Compaqs > > >inactivity with OpenVMS. > > > > Exactly where do you get this information? How do you know how much > > Compaq spends on OpenVMS? C'mon. Out with it. Are you secretly on > > our BOD? Are you really in OpenVMS engineering? > > What a ludicrous argument. You know as well as I do that > Compaq either arn't spending money on OpenVMS or the > money they are spending is having no discernable effect > which is the same thing in the long run. If they were > spending money on OpenVMS then there would be signs > and sightings of this there arn't. > > > > > > And let's just say, for the sake of argument, that OpenVMS spending is > > lower than Unix - so what? Unix still has quite a long way to go to > > reach the level that OpenVMS and VMSclusters currently have. And > > Linux will probably never get there in our lifetime - not that it > > couldn't, but the PHMs in businesses suffer from attention deficit > > disorder management philosophy. i.e., they're waiting for the next > > big thing to be hyped for them to move on to. They don't remember > > their business decisions from last week, let alone which OS they were > > interested in last year. > > This argument tends to suggest that you don't > really know much about UNIX. > > OpenVMS may have great clustering, though even Compaq > would now want you to beleive that Tru64's is better > but it does not have lots of other things. In > another thread we have been discusssing OpenVMS's > Java support which is in relative terms when > compared with even Tru64 very poor. > > This is just one example of where OpenVMS lags > UNIX's in terms of technology. > > Regards > Andrew Harrison > Enterprise IT Architect