[Info-vax] OT: Arun Kishan

[Neil Rieck]

On Jan 11, 4:23 am, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
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> I don't get it why people believe in x86 as being the saviour.

Nobody is saying that. HPQ no longer manufacturing processors and so
totally relies on Intel's Itanium (which from what I have heard is a
fairly decent and not that expensive). Intel appears to be focusing
more on PC competition from AMD and so x86-64 is getting the lion's
share of improvements. OpenVMS development was going along at a fairly
good clip until 8.3 but it appears that HPQ management has got OpenVMS
on minimal life support with point releases every 18-24 months
(probably to maximize their profits).

It doesn't matter which technology is the best when companies owning
that technology make decisions to stop developing it.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/