[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-11 18:02:24 +0000, Paul Sture said:

> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:55:21 -0400, JF Mezei wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> The problem there is that 2020 takes me (and I assume a fair few other
> contributors here) to retirement age.

But far from all.

> As it happens I don't depend on VMS for my livelihood any more, but for
> the others who do, have you considered that you are actively trying to
> wreck the last few years of their working lives?

This also depends on each person's approach, and opinion toward change.

A big software port might well be a very entertaining and challenging 
project, actually.    You can learn a whole lot getting into a porting 
project, too.  You'll learn more about your software, some things about 
the current platform, certainly much more about the target platform, 
and you'll definitely improve your skills and your tools.

The end of Alpha and the ensuing Itanium port of OpenVMS was certainly 
a challenge.

A classic, big, complex OpenVMS app might well need seven or eight 
years for a port, too; until 2020, and potentially beyond.

Put another way, if you're not sure that the lifetime of your current 
OpenVMS application is likely to be longer than your own career, or if 
the sort of stuff that has been posted here concerns you, or if you're 
interested in learning about options and alternatives that might be 
useful to yourself and your career and also to your employer, then 
up-rate your own skills.  (Your employer probably isn't going to push 
you here, either; that's up to you.)



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