[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[JF Mezei]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> Solaris/SPARC is being sold primarily as database servers today.
> 
> They are not price competitive with Linux/x86-64 in the other tiers.
> 
> That is not really something Larry has decided. The same thing is
> happening for AIX and HP-UX.


Fat chance for HP-UX with Oracle no longer producing new versions for it
and HP still adament they won't port HP-UX beyond IA64.


However, out of all this, you might see HP emerge with a very credible
Linux mainframe (Superdome with 8086s) with Oracle commitment for Oracle
on them, with HP providing enterprise mainframe class management tools
for Linux.

but HP has to hurry up, time is running out.