[Info-vax] VMS survivability

[Dan Cross]

In article <tsu3r4$gfrl$1 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>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.

Yup.  Commercial Unix is dead, your quibbling not withstanding.

>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.

Who's definiton?  Yours, I suppose.

"Depending on the vendor, end-of-life may differ from end of
service life, which has the added distinction that a vendor of
systems or software will no longer provide maintenance,
troubleshooting or other support."

	- Dan C.