[Info-vax] VMS survivability

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/19/2023 3:56 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <k5ea4nF3u82U1 at mid.individual.net>,
> Michael Kraemer @ home <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:
>> Dan Cross wrote:
>>> In article <tsrr9q$5qhq$4 at dont-email.me>,
>>> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>> Most of them are still selling. Oracle is selling Solaris.
>>>> IBM is selling AIX. HPE is selling HP-UX. HPE is not selling
>>>> Tru64.
>>>
>>>
>>> Literally every single one of those has been EOL'ed.
>>> Every. Single. One.
>>
>> Latest release of AIX (7.3) was end 2021,
>> about one year ago.
>> And two years *after* IBM acquired RH.
>> Doesn't sound like EOL to me.
> 
> https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/17/unix_is_dead/

The headline says that Unix is dead.

Those that only read the headline may think that means
all Unix is EOL.

Those that read the content below the headline will
see that it just says that AIX, Solaris and HP-UX
are in "maintenance mode", which by definition is
not EOL.

Arne