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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/14/2012 9:41 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> 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.

That would have happened anyway.

Oracle dropping Itanium support just speed up the
process a bit.

Arne