[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <tcnLngdc$7SI at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <75du2gF181jrrU3 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> 
>> 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.
> 
>    So I can still get support for a 68K Sun?

Don't know, but I am sure you could find someone to support it. :-)
Oh, you meant from Sun....  Can you buy a 68K Sun from Sun?

Once again, a serious discussion about what is and is not supported turns
into a Babbagian (how's that for an adjective!) argument.


"Propose to any Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however
admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English
mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility
in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will
pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes,
he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple."
Charles Babbage, 1852. 
 

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