[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <Nha4iDvW7VpC at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <49efc581$0$90271$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> Bob Koehler wrote:
>> 
>> They will continue SPARC for some time. Just like Digital did with VAX
>> and HP did with Alpha. It will take some years to phase out SPARC as
>> well.
> 
>    HP did not continue Alpha.  Alpha was killed by Compaq before HP
>    bought Compaq and HP carried out Compaq's plan.

It remains to be seen what Oracle's plans are, but it should be noted
that this is a major difference between HP and Sun.  When Sun talked
of ending support for one architecture their users said; "Don't" and
Sun listened.  We all know what HP's response was when their users
made a similar plea.

bill
 

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