[Info-vax] IT shops call on HP and Oracle to kiss and make up

[SeanOBanion]

On Oct 6, 9:56 am, Keith Cayemberg <keith.cayemb... at arcor.de> wrote:
> IT shops call on HP and Oracle to kiss and make uphttp://tinyurl.com/6docx5r

>From TFA:
"OpenVMS, in particular, would be a messy operating system to port,
Eunice said. “I call it a ‘guts-exposed’ operating system; it doesn’t
have much of an abstraction layer to simplify the movement to a new
chipset." Plus, OpenVMS has been ported several times already over the
course of its 30-plus-year history, he pointed out. It started out
life on the VAX, then moved to the DEC Alpha chip, and finally to
Itanium. "The prospect of another port is unpalatable,” Eunice said."


Somewhere I remember a comment about the port to Itainum resulting in
less hardware dependence, though not a flat out HAL (hardware
abstraction layer).
Or is that a hopeful fantasy on my part?


Sean