[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[FrankS]

On Friday, August 17, 2012 4:15:18 PM UTC-4, Keith Parris wrote:
> I seem to recall these discussions starting around '92-'93. We were told 
> UNIX and open systems were the future. The Digital VP in charge of UNIX 
> gave customers the message "Yes, VMS will die, but don't worry -- 
> everything you've come to know and love in VMS will be available in 
> UNIX". The result was TruClusters.
> 

Some time last year, maybe longer ago than that (aging memory), I bumped into a sales rep that worked in my Digital field office.  The conversation got around to Digital's demise and he commented that the big reason was that Digital never embraced Unix.  So, even now there's at least one sales person (I suspect there are hundreds more) that is still under the impression that Unix was the future and OpenVMS was a dead horse.