[Info-vax] rx2800i2 sales/support window changes
Shael Richmond
shael.richmond at gmail.com
Thu Feb 13 11:14:36 EST 2014
On Thursday, February 13, 2014 9:58:34 AM UTC-6, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Bob Koehler wrote 2014-02-13 15:22:
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> > In article <52fc524c$0$49307$c3e8da3$c8b7d2e6 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
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> >> On 14-02-12 21:44, johnson.eric at gmail.com wrote:
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> >>> Any organization that is still heavily reliant on VMS will find porting off of it to be an incredibly demanding project.
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> >> If HP has no plans for an IA64 emulator on Linux, then those shops who
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> >> are "stuck" on VMS should consider instead moving from IA64 to Alpha
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> >> VMS, at which point they can move to an emulated instance on x86 servers
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> >> for those applications that are not portable to Linux natively.
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> > Why worry about HP's emulator plans. I can't think of one VAX or
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> > Alpha emulator in use that came out of HP.
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> VMS will not be more supported on an emulator, so
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> you win little by degrading from IA64 to Alpha.
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> If you plan to run un-supported after 2025, you can
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> just as well run it on real (self-supported) hardware.
Well I think emulation might be a better option. In a mission critical environment hardware support and future upgrades are more important than VMS support. VMS is pretty stable where as hardware will eventually fail. We have distributed sites in small places where we don't have anyone that could replace parts from spares.
The bigger issue is whether we can get the required performance from the emulator when stepping back from Integrity. Also we have to deal with license issues.
Shael
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