Holy (!&^#) Batman!!!!!!
Would you believe I have been moving some of my personal clients (not
my day job :) onto OpenVMS on Itaniums
because:
(1) The clients are purely disgusted with the iSeries world. The
thing is now named "i" - no series! Try to explain that to a
an irritated customer!
(2) The clients don't have budgets big enough to move to an zSeries
solution, especially since PSI and Flex seem dead,
and IBM is taking its sweet time about coming out with an
affordable small system (ala MP3Ks...)
(3) HP has a great developer program
(4) I an put them on an Itanium, with software, for under $10K.
Under $3K if they are okay with used hardware. Alphas are even less,
but are *all* used hardware. Wow...
Yeah, I'm interested. :)
On Sep 8, 2008, at 2:19 PM, David Boyes wrote:
Latest interesting step: I’ve gotten a partial boot of OpenVMS in a
virtual machine on System z. Some instruction emulation still needs
work (the Alpha POP is a little unclear in a few areas), but we have
system services initializing and hardware detection is fully
functional.
*grin* Anybody interested?
-- db
David Boyes
Sine Nomine Associates
