[Info-vax] rx2800i2 sales/support window changes

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Bob Koehler wrote 2014-02-13 15:22:
> 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.
>

VMS will not be more supported on an emulator, so
you win little by degrading from IA64 to Alpha.

If you plan to run un-supported after 2025, you can
just as well run it on real (self-supported) hardware.