[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[John Dallman]

In article <unhb6r$tj$1 at reader1.panix.com>, cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net
(Dan Cross) wrote:

> An interesting tie-in to DEC was, when HP acquited Compaq, and
> thus the DEC IP rights, whether they would wind down HP-UX and
> go with Tru64 as their Unix offering (or the other way around).

That was never a question within HP. They'd nailed their colours to IA-64,
and had shipped the first HP-UX that ran on it, 11i v1.5, before the
merger. Dropping that and re-starting porting work, causing a delay of at
least a year, would have needed an extraordinary justification.

> Too bad that HP-UX is the one still standing.  :-(

Not for long. Its end of life is 31st December 2025. Live by IA-64, die
by IA-64. 

John