[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Neil Rieck]

On Apr 24, 8:38 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <49efc581$0$90271$14726... at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <a... 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.

I think you meant to say that development of the Alpha chip was halted
before the merger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dec_Alpha (EV7z appeared in 2004)

Lots of Marvel technology was introduced in 2004 but discontinued in
2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaServer

NSR