[Info-vax] Beyond Open Source

[seasoned_geek]

On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 8:23:36 AM UTC-5, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <3b84736e-d374-45fe-8e50-501dda9d9146 at googlegroups.com>, seasoned_geek <> writes:
> > 
> > The same reason HP elected to kill of the much loved Alpha CPU which had at=
> >  least 5 years if not 10 years of enhancements left in it. HP didn't invent=
> >  it. They didn't want to admit VMS was kicking UX's ass up and down every s=
> > treet they met on. They didn't want to admit the Alpha technology Intel was=
> >  caught stealing red handed while working on the HP-Intel joint venture to =
> > create a 64-bit chip 10 YEARS LATE was way better than the Itanic they fina=
> > lly launched.
> 
>    In sales and profitability, UX was running circles around VMS.  So
>    what basis do you use for the claim "VMS was kicking UX's ass"?
> 
>    A lot of us maight feel that VMS is technically superior, but HP
>    had admitted that years prior to DEC's demise.  Several years before
>    Alphacide.

The Shanghai (sp?) stock exchange threw HP-UX out on its arse and hired people to develop a worthwhile trading system on "modern OpenVMS." So did every other place where up time mattered.