[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[JF Mezei]

David Froble wrote:

> Now that you've come out of the closet, I think you're going to find that people 
> don't need you to make their decisions for them.  Now that you've confessed your 
> goal, you may find that your goal is rejected by many others.

I am not in any position to get others off VMS. And I don't make
decisions for others.

But I am in a position to look at what has happened and what is
happening and see a path set by HP years ago that is becoming clearer
and clearer and more difficult to change. That path leads to VMS in
maintenance mode and an end to new IA64 servers in probably 3 years
(although they may remain on sale for some time depending on contractual
obligations and how long HP is willing to commit to supporting the
hardware).  And end of sales in 2015 means at least 5 years of hardware
support bringing this to 2020.

The writing is on the wall. If you refuse to see it because you don't
want the bad news, don't blame me.