[Info-vax] IS everyone waiting?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-10-20 kl. 01:43, skrev Simon Clubley:
> 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 ?
>

Running 8.4 after 1-jan-2017 is not much different from running
8.2 today.

I think that the official standpoint from the site is to always
have support contracts on everything, and if so, it is the
VSI offerings (that seems to be on its way) that solves that.
Yes, I know 8.2 has fallen of the end-of-support cliff...

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

What if the sky is falling down? Let's see when that happens.
I do not expect that much to pop up in Alpha/VMS.

>>> 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.
>

And if looking at hardware something like :

Alpha DS20e > Alpha DS25 > X86-64

is probably more close to the truth then:

Alpha DS20e > Itanium > X86-64

During the 10 years I have been involved the official message
has been that these systems has a 3-year lifetime left. So there
have never been any longer planning then that. My first job
10 yers ago was to upgrade to the current DS20e's.

But then, we are a small site, probably not even a dot on the
VSI world map. The visit to IKEA IT HQ in a few weeks will be
interesting, *they* are probably on the VSI radar...


> 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.
>