[Info-vax] Itanium Kittson lives on?

[Neil Rieck]

On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 7:00:51 AM UTC-5, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Den 2016-02-18 kl. 12:33, skrev Neil Rieck:
> 
> > ...so Itanium will eventually yield to "x86-64 XEON". In the next 10
> > years (perhaps up to 2025 and beyond) companies who run businesses...
> 
> I talked to a friend that was to a visit and presentation at a large
> VMS shop in Sweden. They seemed to have VMS plans up to approx. 2028...
> 
> 
> 
> > will
> > sleep a bit better knowing their Itanium processors will be unable to
> > become infected by x86 viruses. (this does not exclude other types of
> > attacks like "SQL-injections", "plain-text sniffing" to only name two of
> > many)
> >
> > Neil Rieck Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
> >
> >

I'm not surprised. I'm not sure what is in the water in Scandinavia (the people who brought us: Linux, MySQL, and MariaDB) but I know there are a lot of OpenVMS systems running there. The same is true for continental Europe.
 
Back in the day (mid-1980s to early-1990s) I was fortunate enough to have a lot of hardware and software training at DEC in Massachusetts and remember seeing attendees from Norway, Sweden, and Finland. There where also attendees from China.
 
Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.