[Info-vax] VMS dying?

[JF Mezei]

On 14-09-24 03:38, Dirk Munk wrote:

> Linux and Windows, and at the same time it became very clear that the 
> Itanium was dead, that was the moment that HP implicitly admitted HP-UX 
> was dead too.

Yes, I agree. But it was all implicit, even if the writing on the wall
is in fluo colour at 600 point bold flashing font.

I don't think HP has made a formal announcement on HP-UX in terms of no
new releases.

With VMS, from the day that they decided to not make it available on
Poulson, they knew they would have to make a formal announcement once
Tukwila end of sale would be announced.

Suspect HP may prefer to milk the cow as long as possible and only do
security patches on HP-UX and not admit it has stopped developping it.

> them with Windows and Linux. It may be some time before the official 
> announcement, but HP-UX is on borrowed time.

**IF** HP has a plan on exactly what unique features of HP-UX they want
to port to Linux, then they would likely wait until those features are
ready to ship so that when they make formal EOL announcement of HP-UX,
they can point to customer able to benefit from same features on Linux.