[Info-vax] rx2800i2 sales/support window changes

[Bob Koehler]

In article <52fc524c$0$49307$c3e8da3$c8b7d2e6 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> On 14-02-12 21:44, johnson.eric at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> Any organization that is still heavily reliant on VMS will find porting off of it to be an incredibly demanding project.
> 
> 
> If HP has no plans for an IA64 emulator on Linux, then those shops who
> are "stuck" on VMS should consider instead moving from IA64 to Alpha
> VMS, at which point they can move to an emulated instance on x86 servers
> for those applications that are not portable to Linux natively.

   Why worry about HP's emulator plans.  I can't think of one VAX or
   Alpha emulator in use that came out of HP.