[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[JF Mezei]

Say  HP would donate Alpha to the chinese for $9.99.


Would the current DEC compilers (maintained by HP) be of use to the
chinese if they wanted to go Linux ? (aka: is it easy to port an alpha
compiler from VMS/Tru64 to Linux for instance ?)


How long would it realistically take for the chinese between purchase of
Alpha and compilers and being able to compete against Sun/IBM in the
enterprise market with an Alpha based solution ?

It would be sweet irony if the chinese could get Tru64 and Alpha for
peanuts, and within 5 years come back with a quadcore Alpha with current
process shrink and speeds and a updated True64 and negotiate to get
Oracle on it.

HP would have donated the very technology that could have gotten it out
of the Itanium dead end and now the chinese would steal market share
from HP.