[Info-vax] Updated HPE/VSI OpenVMS V8.4-2L1 Marketing Brochures

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <1bd0ceb5-2752-4bb4-bbb3-8a8928c13289 at googlegroups.com>,
clairgrant71 at gmail.com writes: 

> Alpha is a very difficult issue for us. We have people coming to us looking
>  for Alpha support
> but the only way we can provide it at this time is for the customer to 
> upgrade to a VSI release.
> If you have been running on 7.3-2 for 10+ years do you really want to 
> disturb that environment?

Some stayed at 7.3-2 since they thought that the writing was on the 
wall.  If they are still on Alpha, they might want to go to x86, which 
presumably means via 8.4.

> People seem to think that just because there are thousands of Alpha systems
> out there that they
> should become VSI customers and make us lots of money. 

I don't know how many Alpha customers there are compared to Itanium 
customers, but both are potential x86 customers, since that is the only 
future for VMS.  It would be nice for the Alpha folks to skip Itanium 
completely.  Going from 7.3-2 to 8.4 isn't that big of a deal, 
especially if there is no change in the software run.