[Info-vax] Itanium Poulson a game changer

[MG]

On 23-feb-2013 18:32, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> Your choices here are the usual ones, of course.  To port your
> application(s) to an existing Itanium box or to the Poulson-based
> i4-class gear when (if?) that's announced for OpenVMS, or to "port" to
> emulation, or to port your application(s) off VMS.  Maintaining your
> dependencies on VMS through hardware or emiulation will be rather less
> expensive than the latter, particularly if your applications have
> dependencies on OpenVMS features.

Is this perhaps the opportunity and excuse for HP to 'finally' kill
off VMS?  I mean, starting with the "Poulson" (9500-series) IPF.

/Yes/, I know about 'the roadmaps' but I also know they're ignored
when it suits them.  (Tru64 UNIX 2003~'07 era roadmaps, anyone?)

  - MG