[Info-vax] [OT] Architectures, was: Re: What is more important now, VMS software or hardware?

[Keith Parris]

On 8/29/2014 7:28 AM, Kerry Main wrote:
> Actually, my preference for a post x86-64 port would be for a
> Power8 / Power9 port

Seems a pretty risky target.

IBM’s semiconductor manufacturing business is reportedly up for sale.

And OpenPower? "IBM's open hardware move is ‘driven by desperation more 
than hope.’…’Adding open to Power doesn't make Power open, nor will it 
make Power more appealing to the vast majority of people who are 
deploying Intel servers today,’ he said. ‘Power is a very innovative 
architecture, but buyers tend to be very reluctant to buy into [an] 
architecture they're not using if it looks like the architecture is on 
its way out.’” - EE Times. 4/24/14, 
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1322087