[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Michael Kraemer]

Bob Koehler schrieb:
> 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.

which probably was HP's plan anyway.
They bought Compaq only three months after
alpha's EOL annoucement, so this was
probably part of the deal.