[Info-vax] Gabriel Consulting Group surveys customers about Oracle's recent actions

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <4dd160aa$0$10786$c3e8da3$76a7c58f at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei
<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> But for IA64, the volumes aren't there to turn this heavy white elephant
> into a flying condor.

same was true for Alpha.
 
> Intel gets money from HP to continue to do the IA64 thing. As long as HP
>  pays, Intel will do the work. DoN,t think for a minute that should HP
> decide to move to the 8086, that Intel would continue to develop IA64.

They don't need to move, they're already there.
All it takes would be to drop the insignificant baggage
(VMS, HP-UX etc.)