[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

[H Vlems]

On 3 jan, 22:32, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
> JF Mezei schrieb:
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> > My prediction is that VMS will continue to be "developped" until the
> > death of IA64 is formally announced sometime in the next 2 years at
> > which point both IA64 and VMS will get one more iteration before going
> > on 5 year support. However, if death of IA64 is announced before 8.4 is
> > out, then 8.4 will be the last version.
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> On a related issue:
> HP's pageshttp://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/vax/
> tell us that VAX/VMS support will be guaranteed through 2010.
> 2010 is here, so by year end VAX support would be dead?

Michael, there's a link on that HP page. It states that VMS support
for 5.5-2, 7.x will continue until the end of 2012.
AFter that if the end of software support will be announced it will be
at least 24 months in advance.
Hans