[Info-vax] Layered products, the HP view !?!

[clairgrant71 at gmail.com]

> The roadmap says "Two releases are planned between V8.4-1H1 and V9.0".
> Those two would also be Itanium releases. If any of them happens to
> contain anything else besides of new hardware support (that is, some
> new real functionality in the OS or LPs), then one can re-evaluate
> what one is running. It might even be worthwhile to upgrade to 8.41Hn
> even if you are not running newer (i4) hardware, just becuse of the new
> functionality offered in OS and LPs.

Precisely. The main reason for these two releases is for SW improvements.
A new HW platform arriving is a coincidence of the timing.

> 
> I might have missed something, but right now with the current 8.41H1,
> if you are *not* on i4 hardware, I see little reason to not stay on
> current 8.4. What will running 8.41H1 in i2 servers give you?

You will have to ask the customers. We got numerous requests to support 1H1
on some pre-i2 systems, e.g. rx2660, and we are.

> 
> Now, if VSI would like customers to switch there support contracts ASAP,
> even if *not* on i4 hardware, there is some "marketing" to do... :-)
> 
> Jan-Erik.