No. But I'll speculate wildly: They'll keep it going and improving it until 2010. - OpenVMS has a lot of existing satisfied customers. There is a tendency for some people to stay with what they know unless it becomes prohibitively expensive. - HP/Compaq have the capability to support it, and more importantly still make money from it. They have no reason to stop. - There is a huge amount of software written for VMS/OpenVMS systems. Naturally people will avoid porting to anything else, unless, again, it becomes prohibitively expensive. - Alpha based hardware is still going to be on sale for several years. - They wouldn't port to Itanium unless they thought it worthwhile in at least the medium term. - In terms of modern software you can still get pretty much all you need in comparison to Unix based systems. i.e. Web Server, Mail Server, Java Application Server. Everything but .Net :-(
My off-topic thoughts, Peter --- Sam Gentile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is off-topic but do you have any insight into what HP will do with > it? > > Sam Gentile > Co-Author Wrox Professional Visual C++.NET (ISBN 1861005962 ) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile > http://www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile/DotNet.htm > BLOG: http://radio.weblogs.com/0105852/ > http://www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile/ScienceFiction.htm > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Discussion of the Rotor Shared Source CLI implementation > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Peter Foreman > Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 3:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Has anyone considered a port to OpenVMS? > > Still going strong, being ported to the Itanium at the moment. > > Of course it's under Compaq now... Err, make that HP.... > > --- Sam Gentile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is OpenVMS still around?-)) (from an ex-DECie) > > > > Sam Gentile > > Co-Author Wrox Professional Visual C++.NET (ISBN 1861005962 ) > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile > > http://www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile/DotNet.htm > > BLOG: http://radio.weblogs.com/0105852/ > > http://www.project-inspiration.com/sgentile/ScienceFiction.htm > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Discussion of the Rotor Shared Source CLI implementation > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Walter Crosby > > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 12:13 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Has anyone considered a port to OpenVMS? > > > > Has anyone considered, or are they doing a port of Rotor to OpenVMS? > > > > Walt Crosby > > Terabase Corporation > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
