[Info-vax] HPE Integrity emulator

[Dave Froble]

On 2/29/2024 12:49 PM, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <urq94k$m8rf$1 at dont-email.me>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
> wrote:
>> On 2/29/2024 3:06 AM, John Dallman wrote:
>>> HP-UX isn't all that different from Linux, and I seriously doubt
>>> there would be enough businesses that want to stay with HP-UX
>>> badly enough.
>> People liking HP-UX and liking Itanium may be a very small group.
>
> "Liking" doesn't mean so much when lots of money is involved. A decade
> ago, a fair few people may have expressed loyalty to HP-UX/Itanium, but
> it was obvious then that it wasn't going to grow, and the writing has
> been on the wall for Itanium since 2019.
>
> Moving almost any kind of HP-UX software to Linux is much easier than
> moving VMS software that uses VMS hard to anything else.
>
> John
>

Yes, and while I've never been in this situation, some users must have well 
documented testing and validation of their software.  This can involve large 
amounts of that money you mention.  It could be possible for some that just 
about anything is cheaper than a new validation job.

It would be my guess that anyone is such a situation just might have the 
re-validation to do if switching to an emulator.

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