[Info-vax] What do HP's planned changes mean for VMS?

[JF Mezei]

MG wrote:
> On 24-8-2011 3:48, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Pretty slim chance.
>>
>> It is not where the growth are.
> 
> What else would qualify as "enterprise" then?  (That is, if said
> emphasis should be truly there, if HP is sincere about this alleged
> 'new focus' of theirs, needless to say.)


My guess is that HP might targer x86 running Linux as the platform where
the growth in enterprise applications and services will happen.

>From a pragmatic point of view: if maintaining Itanium costs too many
billions per year and tou want to cut those costs, you need to figure
out how much it will cost to port all 3 operating systems to x86.

Does porting HP-UX to x86 (with the change in endianness) worth the cost
? Will it bring any value to cuistomers that couldn't be provided by
Linux with HP add-ons ?

And should HP really be supporting 3 proprietary OS on top of Linux and
Windows on X86 ?

They probably are trying to develop a strategy to move their
IA64/Alpha/PA-Risc customers over to x86 on Linux. This way, they can
abandon HP-UX, NSK and VMS. But until they have found a way, they want
to keep all 3 on life support to continue to get maintenance/support
revenues.