[Info-vax] rx2800i2 sales/support window changes

[Shael Richmond]

On Friday, February 14, 2014 3:09:56 PM UTC-6, Keith Parris wrote:
> On 2/12/2014 10:04 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
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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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> Customers who have migrated already from (VAX or) Alpha to Integrity, 
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> and traded in all their licenses, old hardware, etc. (or those customers 
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> who started out on Integrity) are unlikely to find moving to Alpha on 
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> emulators attractive at all, for multiple reasons:
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> 1) Performance. They got a performance gain going to Integrity from 
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> Alpha (or VAX). Running under emulation of Alpha is extremely unlikely 
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> to give them anywhere near the performance they are getting on Integrity 
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> native today.
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> 2) Support. Since HP Mature Product Support for OpenVMS 8.4 on Alpha is 
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> committed only through at least the end of 2018, whereas MPS on OpenVMS 
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> 8.4 on Integrity is committed through at least the end of 2025, anyone 
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> interested in longevity of support would probably aim to get to the 
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> safest landing zone of OpenVMS 8.4 running on Integrity.
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> 
> 
> I expect the prospect of Itanium emulation to start to become attractive 
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> as individual hardware platforms age and after they lose hardware 
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> support from HP and start to fail frequently, and the necessary decade 
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> or two has elapsed from a platform's heyday so that system performance 
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> of an emulator can at least match the original hardware platform's 
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> performance.

I finally got an answer from Stromasys that said an emulated DS25 would be slower than the actual DS25.  However I could have it emulate two cores to get better performance at the cost of buying additional VMS licenses.

Shael