[Info-vax] "HP started then spiked HP-UX on x86 project"

[David Froble]

JF Mezei wrote:
> David Froble wrote:
> 
>> Regardless, if things look bleak, customers will act accordingly.  Self full-filling 
>> prophesy.  If HP wants to recover, they had better start showing some things to give 
>> customers a reason to have good expectations.
> 
> According to the Oracle court documents, HP was expected to announce the
> end of IA64 in 2012. This would mean that HP should be ready with
> "Intanium retention" programmes to help people port to Linux etc.
> 
> I think that all the commotion about constantly changing board/CEO, as
> well as the Oracle pulling its products from IA64 has accelerated
> things, but also called HP's bluff which makes it harder for HP to
> announce the end of IA64 this year since it would be seen as a weak
> admission that Oracle was correct.
> 
> So announcement of the end of BCS as we know it will probably wait until
> 2013, at which point HP should have its 8086 based Superdomes on the
> market as well.

If anyone is interested in what I think, it is that Oracle wants HP to fail, so that they 
can pick up some of the better pieces for next to nothing.

If such should happen, don't expect Oracle to give a damn about the customers left high 
and dry.

DEC's biggest mistake was giving RDB to Oracle ....