[Info-vax] IS everyone waiting?

[Forster, Michael]

Migrating to ancient second hand refurbished IA2 HPE VMS and sad HPE TCP/IP due to Intersystems dropped Process Software superior MultiNet TCP/IP stack. GE went along.

Requests to Intersystems fell on deaf ears and poor replies.

Sad. No IA4 and MultiNet support option.

They want AIX or Linux and EPIC Systems. GE folded or gave up on stable rock solid VMS


Michael Forster
Enterprise Storage and IDX Architect | Information Services
Medical College of Wisconsin
O: (414) 955-4967 |  mforster at mcw.edu


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Subject: Re: [Info-vax] IS everyone waiting?

On 2016-10-19, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> Den 2016-10-19 kl. 19:16, skrev David Turner:
>
> > What are people doing for hardware and licensing right now?
>
> We are a rather small site with three Alphas.
>

What are you planning to do when Alpha VMS moves out of normal
support at the end of the year ?

What if a security issue is discovered next year which affects
Alpha VMS as well ?

>> HP Alpha VMS > HP Integrity VMS > VSI Integrity OpenVMS > VSI x86-64 VMS
>
> Hard to justify the cost and additional work (for us).
>

I would agree with that when you have this option:

> Maybe:
>
> HP Alpha VMS > VSI Alpha VMS > VSI x86-64 VMS.
>

Given VSI's Alpha plans, that's a much more likely option if the goal
is to just need support on existing hardware until x86-64 is ready.

I wonder if the VSI Alpha plans might have been announced a little
too late however, given the typical lead times on replacing systems.
(The implication is that the decision might have been made by
customers to replace existing Alpha systems quite some time ago.)

Simon.

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