[Info-vax] Alpha VMS, was: Re: Internationalization

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-12-31, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
> I think that there may be more sites running old Alphas than anything 
> else.  For sure there were enough for VSI to decide they needed an Alpha 
> release of their own.  As "their own" HP is out of the picture.
>

Actually, I don't know if it was a one-off, but HPE actually released
the DCL vulnerability patch for Alpha in addition to VSI:

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=pdb_na-VMS84A_DCL_V0200&docLocale=en_US

And yes, I was also surprised HPE did that. If someone paid HPE for
the patch (I'm assuming any HPE Alpha VMS support contracts have long
expired), I wonder why they didn't just take out an Alpha support
contract with VSI instead ?

I wonder if it's because whatever site(s) asked HPE to do that didn't
want to migrate from HPE Alpha VMS to VSI Alpha VMS for some reason ?

Simon.

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