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

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <janpc7$o8m$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes: 

> 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.

Yes, the Rdb folks said that they will conform to the letter of 
Ellison's decree in that they will never release 7.4, but rather 7.3.x, 
where x can become arbitrarily large.  How much of this gets through to 
the decision makers is another question.  (To be sure, Rdb did this 
before, when what should have been 8.0 was branded 7.2 or whatever.)  
However, it is clear that Ellison (perhaps because he now owns Sun 
hardware) is not as sympathetic to other hardware as he was before.  A 
side effect of this is that it looks worse for VMS.

> > 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...

OK, but that rules out VMS.