[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Arne Vajhøj]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> 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.

AFAIK the last Alphas was sold by HP in 2007.

Arne