[Info-vax] rx2800i2 sales/support window changes

Michael Kraemer M.Kraemer at gsi.de
Thu Feb 13 02:50:18 EST 2014


JF Mezei schrieb:

> In February 2001, the Québec government entered into a huge contract
> with Compaq to replace all the IBM mainframes with Alphas and Tru64.

Silly move. How could they. What was their Plan B?.

> On June 25 2001, the paper those contracts were written on became
> worthless.

Given that Alpha was already on the way out,
those contracts were of doubtful value even before June 2001.




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