[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

[Dave Froble]

On 2/16/2022 4:36 PM, Hans Bachner wrote:
> Simon Clubley schrieb am 16.02.2022 um 15:02:
>> On 2022-02-15, Hans Bachner <hans at bachner.priv.at> wrote:
>>>
>>> In fact, most of the emulators I have touched in the last few years
>>> [disclaimer: my company is a Stromasys sales and support partner] run in
>>> virtual machines. Some customers migrated older emulator versions
>>> running on physical servers to current versions on virtual servers.
>>
>> How do you handle customers with Itanium systems who want to move
>> away from physical Itanium hardware ?
>>
>> I know there are no free Itanium full system emulators, but are there
>> any commercial Itanium full system emulation options I have missed ?
>
> I'm not aware of an Itanium full system emulator.
>
> What I am seeing is that (very few) customers who migrated their software from
> Alpha to Itanium in the past now consider or even started moving back to
> (emulated) Alphas because they can't wait for x86 to become production ready or
> are reluctant to follow VSI's new licensing policies.

Well, even with emulated Alphas, one still needs to work with VSI.  Using some 
old version of VMS with poor networking and other issues is a dead end.  While 
some uses really don't need anything new, it's still a dead end.

What is needed is better communications and terms with VSI.  Whether VSI will be 
reasonable is a question.  Unless their goal is to milk a few VMS users that 
don't have other options, or to hold onto more VMS users, or to get new VMS 
customers, what will actually happen remains to be seen.


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