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From: garhow@auto-trol.UUCP (Garry Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Auto-trol support for VMS
Message-ID: <1208@auto-trol.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 90 14:28:23 GMT
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Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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This is in response to a posting discussing a rumor that Auto-trol plans to drop
support for VMS. At our user's group meeting held here in Denver last month the
following announcement was made by the Vice President of R&D:

"We have adopted Unix as our strategic future operating system direction for all
environments ... We are porting the full family of products to the DEC Ultrix 
workstations. We have announced a July availability for our Series 7000 Mechanical
Design Software, and athe rest of the product line will follow over the next two to
three quarters. This is our strategic direction for workstations from DEC.

VMS is not strategic. We will be phasing out Auto-trol support of the VMS environment
over time. The details and timing are not yet determined and are governed by economics
and by the requirement that we have a sensible migration path for our current VMS
based customers."

We made the announcement at this time to give our VMS based customers early warning
of our intentions to allow them to properly plan for migration. There are no firm plans
for how many future releases of specific Auto-trol products will be done under VMS.

Garry Howard
Sr. Project Manager
Research and Development
Auto-trol Technology Corporation
Denver, Colorado
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