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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/24/2011 7:11 AM, MG wrote:
> 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.)

This is  a XX B$/yr discussion.

Investment in HPVM is still peanuts compared to that.

Sure for the HP-UX folks is is important.

But the HP-UX folks does not run HP today.

Arne