[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[JF Mezei]

ultradwc at gmail.com wrote:

> I told everyone years ago that OpenVMS would be around as long as the government was using it, which we heard years ago was into the 2020s ...
> All you doom sayers have been worrying over nothing.  OpenVMS will be around another 10 years and then ported if the government wants it to be.


Will be around ? yes.
Will be supported? Yes.

Will be developped ?  Big question. It isn't even clear is VMS is
already in maintenance mode.


Will run on new hardware: HP's current answer on this is a definitive
"VMS will not be ported beyond IA64.  (this policy extends to HP-UX as well)


By stretching development, this ensures that when a new generation of
IA64 comes out, it is already late compared to other platforms. Tukwila
being a very good example.

Yes, compared to the previous generation of IA64, the new generation
will show great improvements.  But compared to market place, IA64 is
already years behind the competition.