[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Keith Parris]

On 8/17/2012 3:15 PM, FrankS wrote:
> 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.

Starting about 1997 we heard the same song, second verse -- only this 
time it was NT which was the future. And not to worry -- although VMS 
would inevitably die, everything we had come to know and love in VMS and 
VMS Clusters would be available in Windows NT. The Windows NT Affinity 
Program was born.

Digital wrote a distributed lock manager and a cluster-wide file system 
for Windows NT. Microsoft bought that project and its entire development 
team, along with a license to the VMS Cluster patents, but shortly 
afterward the project disappeared, never again to see the light of day.