[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:15:17 -0700, FrankS wrote:

> 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.

A similar message got through to our senior management who were IBM 
oriented.  Our IT manager was obviously taking notice for he asked for 
ball park figures for an HP-UX system.  He'd also mentioned NT as 
possible replacement for VMS which had us greatly concerned.  This was 
just before NT4 was released.

One of the first things I noticed with NT4 was the general advice to boot 
into DOS for burning CDs.  That alone made me question its suitability 
for replacing those VMS systems.

-- 
Paul Sture