[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Neil Rieck]

Facts:

1) In the past we saw DEC gracefully transition from PDP to VAX by being very open with their plans "and" communicating those plans to their customers.

2) In the past we saw DEC gracefully transition from VAX to Alpha by being very open with their plans "and" communicating those plans to their customers.

For some reason, the transition from Alpha to Itanium was a lot less transparent and poorly communicated.  HP's plans for Itanium and whatever comes next (like Project Odyssey) seem a joke in that they require their customer to engage in "Sherlock Holmes like" detective work at third-party web sites. If HP was doing a better job of communicating with their current customer as well as the public (which they should treat as potential future customers) then these third-party sites wouldn't have much to publish.

Just my 2-cents worth

Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
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