[Info-vax] Wanted: Fresh blood in HP BCS

[Neil Rieck]

On Dec 2, 11:36 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Michael Kraemer wrote:
> > "Perform all product lifecycle marketing responsibilities, spanning
> > launch/intro through discontinuance of the Superdome 2 product line"
>
> Oh my... Superdome 2 is the current IA64 based Superdome (the blades
> thing), not the 8086 based ones that Whitman talked about developping.
>
> But...
>
> http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/solutions/mcci/index.html
>
> There is an image that says: "Putting the client first - bringing HP
> technology innovations from Integrity/HP-UX to x86"
>
> ##
> What is Project Odyssey?
>
> HP today announced a project dubbed "Odyssey" to redefine the future of
> mission-critical computing with a development roadmap which will unify
> UNIX® and x86 server architectures to bring industry-leading
> availability, increased performance and uncompromising client choice to
> a single platform.
>
> Why HP?
>
> Project Odyssey will revolutionize mission-critical computing with
> uncompromising choice and investment protection. For more than 25 years,
> HP has powered the most demanding workloads by building a robust and
> proven franchise of technology and service innovations for
> mission-critical computing. By fortifying Linux and Windows with HP
> intellectual property, HP will unify UNIX and x86 server architectures
> while delivering industry-leading availability, increased performance,
> and flexibility for our customers.
> ##
>
> From the press release at:http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111122xb.html
>
> The roadmap also includes delivering blades with Intel® Xeon® processors
> for the HP Superdome 2 enclosure (code name “DragonHawk”) and the
> scalable c-Class blade enclosures (code named “HydraLynx”), while
> fortifying Windows® and Linux environments with innovations from HP-UX
> within the next two years.
>
> This does not formally announce the end of HP-UX/NSK/VMS. BUT... In the
> "review the roadmap" there is mention of VMS: 8.4 update in 2011, and
> "8.x in the future" That's it.
>
> In other words, while HP is developing the future based on Windows and
> Linux, it will continue to upgrade HP-UX while porting HPUIX tech to
> Linux. Exactly what I thought HP would end up doing.
>
> No mention of porting VMS tech to Linux.
>
> And BTW, Martin Fink is still Senior VP and GM of "Business Critical
> Systems".

Geez, PDP projects were named after planets. VAX projects were named
after stars. With "Project Odyssey" I am visualizing a black monolith
(with dimensions of 1x4x9) appearing whenever the planets are in
alignment :-)

NSR