1 INFO-VAX	Mon, 09 May 2005	Volume 2005 : Issue 257       Contents:@ Re: Heads up Alpha and Storage information - Ok for External use How to convert ACMS to Tuxedo / HP's NonStop Enterprise Division Under New Mgmt 8 Re: Maybe HP should get out of the hardware business....8 Re: new question on (Cyrillic) fonts with Mozilla on VMS8 Re: new question on (Cyrillic) fonts with Mozilla on VMS8 Re: new question on (Cyrillic) fonts with Mozilla on VMS6 Re: OS X support for HFS, was: Re: Appletalk on Alphas Re: RMS Different Example. [OT]: Hubris & Payday at HP   F ----------------------------------------------------------------------   Date: 8 May 2005 17:06:34 -0700  From: bob@instantwhip.com I Subject: Re: Heads up Alpha and Storage information - Ok for External use C Message-ID: <1115597194.377270.169390@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>   F will do Dave ... first we are just starting to touch ds10ls and ds20es ... A if itanium doesn't pan out in 3-5 years, we will just continue on @ ds15s and ds25s or other EV7s till retirement ... one way or theC other, I will retire on OpenVMS, and that means I will actually get ? to enjoy my retirement instead of being on nerve pills or heart @ medication if not dead from working on windoze/unix/linux ... :)   ------------------------------   Date: 8 May 2005 22:56:06 -0700   From: "Ayan" <ayan.km@gmail.com>& Subject: How to convert ACMS to TuxedoB Message-ID: <1115618166.520360.42250@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>   Hi,   G Has anyone tried or actually done the conversion from ACMS to Tuxedo? I @ need to do it for a project and have no idea where to start. Any3 material or info about website will really help me.    Thanking in advance  Ayan   ------------------------------  # Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 03:27:12 GMT 6 From: "Kenneth Farmer" <kfarmer@NOSPAM.spyderbyte.com>8 Subject: HP's NonStop Enterprise Division Under New Mgmt= Message-ID: <kMAfe.21551$vi2.508212@twister.southeast.rr.com>   A http://www.shannonknowshpc.com/stories.php?story=05/05/06/7597459      --     Ken   % _____________________________________ " Kenneth R. Farmer <>< 336-736-7376/ OpenVMS.org | dba.OpenVMS.org | dcl.OpenVMS.org    ------------------------------  $ Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 14:43:12 -0400# From: "John Smith" <a@nonymous.com> A Subject: Re: Maybe HP should get out of the hardware business.... , Message-ID: <fpOdneQsL9RewOPfRVn-3Q@igs.net>   Main, Kerry wrote: >> -----Original Message----- + >> From: John Smith [mailto:a@nonymous.com]  >> Sent: May 7, 2005 9:41 PM >> To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.ComD >> Subject: Re: Maybe HP should get out of the hardware business.... >> >> Main, Kerry wrote:  >>>> -----Original Message-----  >>>> From: Barker, Nigel >>>> Sent: May 7, 2005 12:12 PM  >>>> To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.ComF >>>> Subject: Re: Maybe HP should get out of the hardware business.... >>>>4 >>>> On Sat, 7 May 2005 10:42:41 -0400, "John Smith" >>>> <a@nonymous.com> wrote: >>>>F >>>>> And it's an issue with the customer base in that fewer and fewer= >>>>> apps (commercial or open source) are available for VMS.  >>>>B >>>> In the case of Open Source quite the contrary is true. Not to >>>> mention Java.? >>>> There are many more applications available on OpenVMS than  >>>> there just five years	 >>>> ago.  >>>> >>>> --  >>>  >>> C >>> Yep, what I tell Customers - very Java programmer coming out of ' >>> University is a OpenVMS programmer.  >> >>: >> Really? I'd ask them what they know about AST's and how >> they'd use them.  >> > D > Well, since Java does not take easily take advantage of the nativeD > features of any platform system, that might be a tad hard to do...2 > Hey, who says popular languages have to be good? >  > :-)  > A > [I have always had a hard time understanding supposeably modern H > languages like Java requiring "garbage collection" routines that clean= > up memory .. And negatively impact system performance as my F > understanding is that you have little control over when this garbage" > collection routines kick in ...]    L APL had automatic garbage collection back in 1964 so I guess that makes it aK 'modern' language too. Certainly the APL versions I worked with in the 70's L and 80's had it, and the ability for the programmer to manually invoke it ifG required. Most APL was portable from one implementation to another with @ little or no work. I 'ported' a large APL app from two differentH architectures - IBM 4381 to Data General then onto VMS - in the space 18L months, and each time the 'port' took about a week. The 4381 was a real dog.  L The first trading system I wrote (actually  it was me and one other guy) wasL in APL with some Fortran and Assembler on a VAX - took 6 weeks from the timeC the concept was approved (a 2 page memo I wrote to the COO, with no J functional specs or design) until it went live. Eventually that system wasH running 24/7 transacting about 40-50,000 trades per day, with an averageG daily value of $5-8 billion, hundreds of thousands of price adjustments @ daily, and doing all the risk management functions in real-time.   --F OpenVMS - The never advertised operating system with the dwindling ISV base.    ------------------------------  * Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 18:41:38 +0000 (UTC)P From: helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply)A Subject: Re: new question on (Cyrillic) fonts with Mozilla on VMS $ Message-ID: <d5lmh1$36t$1@online.de>  : In article <cjpfe.5062$ag4.2782@news.cpqcorp.net>, "FredK"% <fred.nospam@nospam.dec.com> writes:    N > "Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply" <helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de>1 > wrote in message news:d5kmas$5l3$1@online.de... K > > Some feedback I have received suggests that I need scalable, as opposed J > > to bitmap, fonts.  Does this make sense?  I've found some *.TTF fonts,= > > but that is apparently a type which DECwindows can't use.  > > L > > Does anyone know where I can get fonts which are a) scalable, b) containH > > Cyrillic characters and c) are in a format which DECwindows can use? > E > Hmm.  TTF == True Type?  I believe Alpha and Itanium can use these.   G Yes.  I tried on VAX.  I'll give it a try on ALPHA.  Can I assume that  H if @SYS$UPDATE:DECW$MKFONTDIR.COM changes the font-directory file, then C things should work?  (I only have remote access to an ALPHA at the  F moment, so I can go ahead and install the fonts, but won't be able to   test things out until next week.   ------------------------------  # Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 20:11:02 GMT * From: "FredK" <fred.nospam@nospam.dec.com>A Subject: Re: new question on (Cyrillic) fonts with Mozilla on VMS 2 Message-ID: <qnufe.5064$0n4.3836@news.cpqcorp.net>  J The VAX code base, as I have said in the past - is a unique implementationK that started life as X11R1 Beta.  It has had things added over time, but by  the I time the font logic was subsantially updated in the MIT source pool - the  costI to re-engineer this into the VAX was too high and potentially disruptive.  Alpha I and IPF are a common code base, that is a modified version of the X11R6.7 $ code base (that is, pretty current).    : "JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot@texsavvy.com> wrote in message& news:427E45B9.1C063B45@texsavvy.com... > FredK wrote: > > G > > Hmm.  TTF == True Type?  I believe Alpha and Itanium can use these.  >  > But not VAX. > G > There is an alternative font handling package which XDPF uses though. ' > Can't remember the acronym right now.  > H > Also, for scalable fonts, the font directory file should have 0 in the, > font name fields related to the font size.   ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 19:01:18 -0400 - From: JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@texsavvy.com> A Subject: Re: new question on (Cyrillic) fonts with Mozilla on VMS , Message-ID: <427E9A3C.60446FB0@texsavvy.com>   FredK wrote:L > The VAX code base, as I have said in the past - is a unique implementationM > that started life as X11R1 Beta.  It has had things added over time, but by  > the K > time the font logic was subsantially updated in the MIT source pool - the  > costK > to re-engineer this into the VAX was too high and potentially disruptive.     ; It is far more disruptive to have had a VAX version that is F significantly different from Alpha from the customer's point of view.   G Now that both X and Motif are open source, and since HP no longer sells D VAX-VMS, perhaps you guys should officially release the VAX specificA code for X and Motif which would allow hobbyiosts to port current G version fo X and motif. Can't do this without the VMS specific code and . drivers which are not part of the open source.  D The hobbyists folks did manage to allow hobbyists to use X and MotifE since, by being available for free, we qualify for the "open" part of B Motif and X. (but HP-UX, by being an active proprietary commercial product doesn't).   H And if HP is stupid enough to stop sales of Alpha in the next 12 months,> it shoudl also release the alpha secific parts of X and motif.   ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 21:50:06 +0200 & From: Paul Sture <paul.sture@decus.ch>? Subject: Re: OS X support for HFS, was: Re: Appletalk on Alphas + Message-ID: <3e78reF1ijvrU2@individual.net>    toby wrote:   B >>Remember that VT100, while in a digital environment means VT220, > 	 > outside  > F >>of our environment, it means a base VT100 without AVO option if they1 >>want to be able to brag about VT100 compliance.  >  > ( > Now we're getting somewhere. Thankyou! >   0 o - many emulations do not do backspace properlyE o - many emulations do not even do the base VT100 without AVO option   properly   ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 21:40:29 +0200 & From: Paul Sture <paul.sture@decus.ch># Subject: Re: RMS Different Example. + Message-ID: <3e789eF1im3vU1@individual.net>    Keith Cayemberg wrote:   > isp.cisco@gmail.com wrote: > 
 >> Hi ALL, >>A >>           Any body provide or let me know where i can find RMS I >> practical example with sample database how to create and how used with G >> various application Using COBOL program.Anybody tell me resource for * >> that or good document or good practice. >> >> Regards,  >> >> newbie in VMS >> > K > Try the HP natural language search assistant which searches (among other  G > resources) answers to support questions and also coding examples for  ? > most of the programming languages provided by HP for OpenVMS.  >  > http://h71029.www7.hp.com/ > - > Here a search for "Example-COBOL" and "RMS" F > http://hp.ciber.net/hp/match.asp?query=Example-COBOL+RMS&source=1000 >  >  Nice tip thanks Keith!   ------------------------------  $ Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 21:20:31 -0400# From: "John Smith" <a@nonymous.com> $ Subject: [OT]: Hubris & Payday at HP, Message-ID: <c_-dnQrw-bKrJuPfRVn-gA@igs.net>  L http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/ArticL le_Type1&c=Article&cid=1115502616410&call_pageid=968350072197&col=9690488638% 51&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes    May 8, 2005. 08:29 AM    Bad for business  K Business schools could benefit from studying failures as well as successes.   G Columnist David Olive offers three shining examples: Molson, HP and AIG       I "It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - it's the same  damn thing over and over"      Edna St. Vincent Millay   I In my impressionable youth, a mentor told me that in business as in life, H there is more to be learned from failure than success. The lesson stuck.  K The grotesque strivings of a Garth Drabinsky, the towering hubris of a Paul K Reichmann, and the destructive delusions of an autocratic Henry Ford in his H later years have as much if not more to tell us about how business worksL than the comparatively less dramatic triumphs of a Bill Gates or Sam Walton.  H Given the preponderance of traditional B-school grads like Jeff SkillingB (Harvard '76) at the helm of so many corporate shipwrecks, and theK consistent malpractice reported each day in the business press over botched I mergers, misguided forays into unfamiliar markets, poor math skills (more L than a hundred major U.S. firms were forced to restate their financials lastE year), and so on, the business leaders of tomorrow would benefit from I detailed analysis of failure rather than the happy outcomes that B-school  case studies focus on.  F Ripped from today's headlines, the curriculum of the Reginald L. DufusE School of Business Maladministration would devote itself to a year of I post-graduate analysis of the bold, persistent incompetence in just three I case histories - say, the pitfalls of growth by acquisition at the former E Molson Inc.; the debilitating phenomenon of excessive CEO pay, taking J Hewlett-Packard Co. as a recent example; and the curse of "celebrity CEOs"G hailed as geniuses until they aren't, as at the troubled U.S. insurance . giant American International Group Inc. (AIG).  F Molson, of course, was crippled by then-CEO Dan O'Neill's $1.2 billionI purchase in 2002 of Brazil's second-largest brewery, which it soon turned E into the third-ranked brewer. The fascination here is that Molson was J repeating its earlier calamitous experience with acquisitions, when in theJ 1980s it strayed into everything from selling chandeliers and two-by-fours( to running a janitorial services outfit.  K So soon after recovering from that debacle Molson plunged into the unknown, E acquiring Sao Paulo brewer Cervejarias Kaiser SA with such shoddy due @ diligence as to be caught unawares when the brewer's third-party, distribution network promptly disintegrated.  I Hobbled in Latin America, and distracted by that foray from the threat of L the "buck-a-beer" phenomenon at home, where pipsqueak rivals have eroded itsJ market share, Molson was so weakened it consented last year to a merger ofJ mediocrities - joining forces with the third-tier U.S. brewer Adolph CoorsK Co. It was recently announced O'Neill would leave the combined Molson Coors F Brewing Co. at month's end; John Molson's 219-year-old legacy has been9 reduced to a branch plant taking orders from Golden, Col.   F The question for students: How does a company like Molson consistentlyJ flounder in one of the most lucrative markets in the world, a near-duopolyK where retail beer prices are among the highest on Earth? Is there something C about easy money that spurs managers to throw it to the four winds?   J Scion Eric Molson was the chairman who presided over both abysmal chaptersJ in modern Molson history. What does that say about the crippling effect onE our economy of Canada's proliferation of family controlled industrial H icons - Bombardier Inc. being another notorious case - where there is no genuine accountability?   K And what role was played by human nature? Why would O'Neill bet the moon in I the southern hemisphere, effectively signing Molson's death warrant as an C independent company? Having performed well initially, but receiving H insufficient acclaim for cleaning up Molson's balance sheet and boostingI profits with plant closings, layoffs and other unglamorous moves, was the K veteran of H.J. Heinz Co. and Campbell Soup Co. restless to earn the bigger C paycheque that comes with running a bigger company, and reaping the I accolades from an unlikely triumph in faraway Sao Paulo? And what kind of K board greenlights a strategy based on such cravenly ego-driven motivations?   L Hewlett-Packard, credited with creating the modern Silicon Valley, is latelyL a riot of excessive pay abuses. In this case study, students would not focusG so much on how HP lost market share in PCs and servers to Dell Inc. and L other rivals; bloated itself with the monster acquisition of Compaq ComputerD Corp., itself a combination of three failing businesses (Compaq's PCL operation, Digital Equipment Corp. and Tandem); and the unsuccessful attemptL to buy the consulting business of PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLC for a heady $18J billion (U.S.), a firm soon snapped up by IBM Corp. for a mere $3 billion.  D All of this happened on the watch of Carly Fiorina, ousted as CEO inG February after a relatively brief run in which chaos reigned and morale L plummeted along with the share price. Because she was heralded as a "saviourH CEO," Fiorina was induced to join an HP then regarded by its board as inJ need of a glamour injection with a stupendous pay package, which is why onF her departure "only" $21.4 million of her total go-away package of $42I million is severance pay, the rest being a guaranteed payoff upfront when  Fiorina was hired.  G For good measure, Fiorina was paid a hefty bonus just months before the G board fired her. And as stupendous as her compensation was, it pales in J contrast with the $3 million bonus paid to her interim replacement, formerG CFO Robert Wayman, who earned a princely $57,692 per day for his 52-day J caretaker stint until a permanent CEO was hired - the recruitment of whom,2 by the way, was not Wayman's task but the board's.  H The saviour CEO concept would have been discredited by now, you'd think,J given the examples of Albert ("Chainsaw Al") Dunlap at Sunbeam Corp. and a% dethroned Paul Tellier at Bombardier.   K But no. In search of yet another saviour CEO, HP's board latched on to Mark L Hurd, 48, whose claim to fame as CEO of NCR Corp. is that he turned a modestG loss into a modest profit during all two years of his tenure, running a J company 13 times smaller than HP, and bringing the firm's share price back to where it was in ... 1991.  D HP's board, still gullible to spin from headhunters and compensationH consultants that good CEOs are hard to find, was induced to offer Hurd aK spectacular pay package of $29.8 million to join HP and endure the hardship L of life in Palo Alto after a all-too-brief sojourn in dynamic Dayton. That'sJ a lot of inkjet cartridges. As usual, the attempt has been made to preventL shareholders from suffering sticker shock by breaking up Hurd's compensationJ into multitudinous and often arcane payments. There's the staggering bonusH target of as much as $8.4 million, and a long-term incentive target thatK tops out at $12.6 million - both extraordinarily high relative to the norm.   B There's the $2 million signing bonus, the $2.75 million relocationH assistance, the $6.6 million to make good on Hurd's NCR options. And, ofK course, Hurd's legal bills for negotiating this astounding package are also  picked up by HP.  K Hurd's lawyer earns his keep: Hurd's contract ensures that the new CEO will K be paid his first-year bonus come hell or high water on the assumption that L his 2005-06 goals have already been met; all Hurd must do is find his way to the office from time to time.   H For students, the question is why a so-so CEO is deemed so valuable, andJ what is the effect of that spectacular pay on both rank-and-file morale atJ HP and among members of compensation committees elsewhere in North AmericaJ who feel additional pressure not to resist the ludicrous spiral in CEO payI that has seen U.S. CEOs earn almost eight times more per dollar of profit  now than in the mid-1980s.  I And at American International Group, students would immerse themselves in E the culture of the "celebrity CEO" and its debilitating side effects.   I Over four decades, Maurice R. (Hank) Greenberg built AIG into the world's L largest insurer. He was pushed out of his own company weeks ago amid alleged accounting improprieties.   K Celebrated as incomparably shrewd by every major U.S. business journal over I the past few decades, Greenberg was long forgiven for running the massive F AIG as a one-man show, even though he was never more than a hired handC owning just a sliver of the equity. Greenberg's handpicked board of G directors did not balk at peculiar transactions that finally caught the J attention of a less forgiving New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer last year.   L Greenberg mocked Spitzer and AIG's regulatory tormentors, saying they lackedL Greenberg's unique sophistication in grasping the nuances of AIG's business.E Yes, well. Investigators in Spitzer's office are now telling the U.S. G financial media that AIG was "massaging" its earnings with questionable L offshore deals, some with non-arms-length parties, to deliver the consistent> results that made Greenberg a hero on Wall Street for so long.  L Most important, AIG itself acknowledged last week that it overstated its netB worth by at least $2.7 billion due to improper accounting methods.  L Making it clear he regards the most respected figure in the global insuranceK business as a top-hatted second-storey man, Spitzer has said AIG could face E criminal charges for suspected fraud in the billions of dollars, at a G company "run with an iron fist by a CEO who did not tell the public the  truth."   D Greenberg shot back at critics last Thursday, accusing the company'sJ directors of making "vile accusations" that are "impugning" his integrity.  E The obvious question here is the merit of accepting at face value the J attributions of genius directed at CEO "legends" who appear to answer only to God.   K The issue isn't avoiding failure, which is an intrinsic part of life and of K business. "The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate," said B Thomas J. Watson Sr., founder of the modern IBM and creator of itsF remarkable punch-card monopoly. The Post-it Note and the microwave areA examples of lab disappointments that became commercial successes.   A The point of studying failure, and making it a formal part of the I business-school curriculum, is that failure is better remembered than the K elements of success, being that setbacks are more dramatic and painful. All 1 the more wonder business doesn't learn from them.   D "Failure isn't a crime," said Walter Wriston of Citibank, one of theK greatest bankers of the previous century. "Failure to learn from failure is  the crime."      --------------------  K I also hear through the grapevine that HP's failure to advertise OpenVMS is H going to be the topic of discussion at at least one MBA school Marketing course.      --L OpenVMS - The never advertised operating system with the dwindling ISV base.   ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2005.257 ************************