[Info-vax] Important technology announcement from HP and VSI?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <5518a6b3$0$44105$c3e8da3$3a1a2348 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> On 15-03-29 20:54, johnson.eric at gmail.com wrote:
>> A link to this popped up on twitter earlier today.
> 
> also of note:
> 
> "John Egolf, OpenVMS Integrity Migration Manager"
> 
> One interpretation is that his mandate is to move VMS customers to
> platforms that HP can make money supporting (Linux/Windows) and thus
> compete against VSI.
> 
> The other interpretation (which I prefer) is that the priority to move
> off IA64 has just been raised and there are now folks whose mandate is
> to move customers off the sinking platform and shift VMS customers to
> VSI sooner rather than later.

   Third possibility:  helping customers move from VAX or Alpha onto
   IA64.  Itanium and Interity have a long history of being interchanged
   terms at HP, whether it's 100% accurate or not.