[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[Christopher]

On Oct 26, 10:40 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 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.

Which, of course, assumes that they are either willing to or have
ported HP-UX to x64.  I have doubts about their desire to spend the
money and/or time on that.