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

[MG]

On 24-8-2011 10:22, JF Mezei wrote:
> 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.

Okay, but all that money they spent on HPVM will also be lost like
that, unless they still restrict these operating systems with a
hypervisor or some other measure.  So, once they go x86, won't many
simply switch to other virtualization solutions, like VMware and such
instead?  The typical arguments: They're 'better known' and 'everyone
uses it.'

HP's emphasis and enthusiasm over HPVM doesn't give me the impression
that they're very eager to do that, just now.  But, I could be wrong
of course...  (After all, who would've thought they would throw out
their PC business.)

  - MG