[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS

[David Froble]

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> JF Mezei wrote 2012-05-16 21:58:
>> Michael Moroney wrote:
>>
>>> It depends on the level of service contract with HP, if any, they have.
>>
>> Service contract doesn't garantee you have access to a HP sales rep and
>> even if it does, it doesn't garantee that sales rep is allowed to talk
>> about transition yet.
>>
>> Once HP publicly admits that IA64 is on its last leg and that VMS/HP-UX
>> are dead ended on IA64, then HP sales reps will be given a new script to
>> read to customers and will stop pretending IA64 is succesful. At that
>> point, HP should also announce some sort of migration assistance to
>> their new 8086 basaed Superdomes and servers.
>>
>> Until then, HP reps are forced to deny this will happen so they are 
>> useless.
>>
>> If you are important enough that you can talk to Meg Whitman, then
>> things owuld be different. But you wouldn't be coming here for advice.
> 
> Now, if and whenever HP/Intel stops further development of Itanium, that
> doesn't make the currently available servers suddenly stop working.
> 
> In a 15 year timeframe there is plenty of time to wait-and-see and
> make decissions from actual facts and not from what someone, who
> feels burnt by DEC/CPQ/HP for his lost career, writes in a newsgroup.

:-)  :-)

Bullseye !!!

Take another shot ...


> Both my VMS customers are on AlphaServer DS20 or DS25 with no current
> porting plans of the application to either Itanium or another OS.
> Support is on one case by HP and in the other by a third part. One
> of the custumers states a min lifetame of 3-5 years. Fine by me,
> noone can look further into the future anyway.
> 
> So if IA64 would be EOL'd *today*, you could probably run your VMS
> apps for at least 10 years or more on the currently available servers.
> 
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