[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[JF Mezei]

David Froble wrote:

> that.  So I ask again, what ax are you grinding?

Since HP doesn't care about VMS customers enough to inform them of the
true future, I do not feel that VMS customers should continue to be HP
customers.

For all the criticism of Compaq's Alphacide, at the very least, it was a
decisive announcement without much prior speculation. It was
a mistake to make the announcement before the replacement platform was
available (and before that platform had shown better performance).

Right now, the death of IA64 is dragging on and on with HP being the
only one refusing to admit the obvious and HP not presenting its project
Odyssey, likely because they fear that once it is out, customers will
realise it is the end of the line for IA64.

Problem is that custoemrs already know it is the end of the line for
IA64 and think HP is really stupid for not providing guidance on where
to move from here, especially for VMS and NSK who have unique services
that make migration to Unix more difficult.