[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <o_GdnTm2as_mv2vUnZ2dnUVZ_hGdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> 
> No, but you can get support for SPARC and X86 architectures.  AFAIK 
> those are the ONLY architectures Sun has supported in recent years. 
> Doesn't 68K date back to the 1980s?

   I'm not sure when Sun dropped 68K, about the same time as HP, I
   think.  The point was that they dropped it.

   Compare that to VAX.  DEC stopped making them a long, long time ago.
   But every time I see an update to VMS I still see a VAX version
   warranted on the cluster co-existence chart, so someone in VMS 
   engineering is still taking the time and effort to test it.

   Which is a lot more support than I thought it would get under HP.

   Sadly, I'm also seeing "Itanium only" on new features in the roadmap.
   Not in core VMS itself, but in layered stuff like future Java
   support.

   Now just how much easier could it be to support Java releases on
   Itanium than Alpha?