[Info-vax] x86-64-based Superdomes on the way (says HP)

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

JF Mezei wrote 2011-11-25 10:57:
> Michael Kraemer wrote:
>
>> But for this one doesn't need to port off the Itanic.
>> Those systems just keep running until the hardware
>> it controls is replaced by something else.
>> If they're still on VAX and thus on an OS
>> whose development has stopped ten years ago,
>> they will even survive if HP stops selling
>> VMS tomorrow.
>
> However, a formal end to VMS development would send the message that HP
> is getting out of that business and thus generate questions about
> continued support an availability of spare parts etc.  It could be that
> HP would provide sufficient assurance and confidence that they will
> continue to support them. Or maybe not.
>
> For customers on Alpha and IA64 however, the story is different because
> they still expect software updates and new VMS versions, so formal end
> to VMS development will affect them. (but so is the formal end of Oracle
> and RDB development...

It's perfectly clear that you have no idea whatsoever what'you are talking 
about. Have you been to any of the Rdb Tech update events lately ?
There is *no* change from the Rdb group in regard to the Oracle decission.
Apart from one (minor) thing, the version number is frozen at 7.3.x.
But that is not planned to change the actual content of Rdb.

> as per Oracle's decision to abandon IA64).

Note that it is "only" the server parts that are affected, the client
kits are planned to contionue to be developed to support future
Oracle Server versions. So from an application point of view, the
code will continue to work as before, but the *server* will have to
run on some other box. As far as I understand...