[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2012-08-03 07:57:
> In article <jveuaf$fo$2 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, Keith Parris
> <keithparris_deletethis at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> On 8/2/2012 6:33 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>> Dirk Munk wrote 2012-08-02 14:05:
>>>> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>>> There was a roadmap in Powerpoint that suggested  a new version of
>>>> RdB. It was discussed in this group.
>>>
>>> Yes, that should probably be 7.3. Not affected by the current news.
>>
>> It would be an Rdb version 7.4, 7.5, 8.0, etc. which would be again
>> allowed to go out, given the current news.
>
> OK, but as long as nothing changes but the version number, what does it
> matter?
>

That is the point. Rdb management at the last Rdb tech days said
(more or less) that they was uneffected (appart from the release
number "thing") by the Oracle-stops-all-IA-64 development message.
So it was business-as-usual even before the judgment yesterday.

Someone (probably JF) also mentioned something about the support
ending date beeing froozen at the release day of 7.3. I have a
clear memory from Rdb management saying that they had an "OK" in
rolling this dates forward without having new 7.4, 7.5... releases.

Now, this is *Rdb* and other Oracle software was probably hit
harder, in particular Oracle DBMS on HP-UX.

Note also that another software that was ment to be developed
"as before" was the *client* kits for Oracle DMBS for IA64/VMS.
So your Oracle DBMS apps on VMS could still use newer DMBS
versions but the DMBS itself had to be run elseware.

And, all this is also developed and released for Alpha... :-)

For Rdb, it would have been unlogical to stop development
on IA64 but not on Alpha.