[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[JF Mezei]

Michael Kraemer wrote:

> So there shouldn't be too many egos left still connected
> with those decisions.


Whitman has no vested interest. And they reduced Ann Livermore's role in
operations but she is still on the board. Livermore probably dates back
from early IA64 decisions.


The problem for whitman is how to manage the EOL of IA64. How to lose
the fewest enterprise customers as possible.  Their policy seems to be
to keep the EOL under wraps and just snow development to a crawl and
once that project odyssey thing is out, customers will see that the 8086
offers better price performance etc and migrate on their own.

Problem is that enterprise customers are not so stupid. They tought we
wouldn't notice the dismememberent of VMS engineering (in fact, the soon
to be ex  employees were forced to not talk about it publicly, and it is
only when it did come out that HP reluctantly agreed to have that live
web chat.

The fact that folsk like Keith Parris are now spouting off "developped
until 2022" means that HP is nowhere near ready to announce the EOL and
they will look even worse when they they the make the announcement.
Before that 2022 date emerged, the commitment ended at Kittson circa 2014.