[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[JF Mezei]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> Nobody believe that HP will announce the end of VMS withing the next few
> years, so HP will not tell Oracle that they will do so. 

It is not known at what level Hurd talks to Ellison about VMS and IA64.
While you may be convinced that HP won't announce EOl for VMS within
next few years, you need to consider the impact of Intel's plans for
IA64. There is a fairly explicit tie between EOL of IA64 and EOL of VMS.
VMS may have been spared when MPE and Tru64 were declared EOL, but I
doubt seriously it will be ported beyond IA64.

So, if Ellison knows that Intel intends to wind down IA64 after Tukwila
(or perhaps allow one last iteration after Tukwila), it would know that
VMS will go down at the same time.