[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:

> 
> How much profit do HP-UX/VMS/NSK generate per year in system sales ?

Just inspect publically available quarterly results.
The upper limit would be sth like $4Bn times 10% margin.

> If HP has to subsidize Intel for IA64 to the tune of $3 billion per
> year, and the above systems don't generate $3 billion worth of profit on
> system sales per year, then HP is better off killing IA64 and going 8086
> for the surviving OS.

According to this assumption it would have to generate §3Bn of
revenues (not necessarily profit) to be viable.

> Big question is which OS will be ported to 8086.

Maybe none. HP sells a lot of x86 boxes with Linux,
with decent revenue and profits. It may turn out
that it is not worthwhile to continue with genuine BCS stuff.

> What percentage of enterprise customers are still on legacy hardware
> (Pa-Risc, Alpha, VAX, MIPS) ?