[Info-vax] HPE Integrity emulator

[John Dallman]

In article <urqhct$o3p3$1 at dont-email.me>, davef at tsoft-inc.com (Dave
Froble) wrote:

> Yes, and while I've never been in this situation, some users must 
> have well documented testing and validation of their software.  

Organisations that have that also tend to have functional planning for
their futures. Those will have been aware for the last five years that
Itanium was ending. 

> 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.

Maybe, but I doubt this will be common. 

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

Indeed, but they have the significant problem that there is no emulator
available. That has been true for the whole period since the end of life
for Itanium was announced. Hoping that someone will come out with one is
optimistic, to say the least. 

John