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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <1d446afc-d919-411b-8007-6ed9ea8f6615 at googlegroups.com>,
clairgrant71 at gmail.com writes: 

> > 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.
> 
> Some might; we'll see. VMS on x86 will be 9.x

I remember someone saying (during the original conference call?) that
8.4 Alpha would be supported in a cluster with 9.x x86.  Migration in a
mixed-architecture cluster is something many are familiar with
(VAX/Alpha, Alpha/Itanium) and gives one a chance for easy comparison
when testing things.  Since the old architecture is there, there are no
show-stoppers. 

I hope that it is still the plan to support this.

> It is not the release of VMS that is the big deal, it is the moving of
> applications to a new different architecture. You either
> recompile/relink or let a translator run our Alpha image. That's a lot
> of disruption if you have been humming along for many years. 

Again, a mixed-architecture cluster is probably the best way.