A bit off topic. THE NEW HPAQ

From: Steve March (Steve.March@Airgas.com)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 10:42:32 EDT


-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Ingwersen [mailto:bingwersen@traverse.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 11:23 PM
To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov
Subject: A bit off topic. THE NEW HPAQ

>Dear managers,
>
>in an effort to let you all sleep at night...
>
>1.) Understand that the Alpha's are here to stay. The names may be
>changing but I don't think it's much to worry about.
>
>
>5.) The fact that they are required to support VMS for 15-20 years by the
>Government, tells me that there
>will be New and refurbished alphas available for quite some time. Heck, I
>still have a couple PDP11's
>and even a few AS2100's sitting around.

I disagree. How do you know the Alpha will still be around? Don't you know
that Intel owns the Alpha technology now; not HP? Intel is going to let the
Alpha just die out. There is going to be one more generation of Alpha and
then that's it. Open-VMS may live on other platforms but not on the Alpha



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