Stephane, Hemant
Below is the official word that I pulled off HP's website. It is
straight PR material, so read between the words as you choose. As I recall,
Compaq had already decided not to build the next-generation Alpha chip
before the merger arose. If you are interested, I would suggest that you
attend the HP roadshow when it comes to a city near you and ask them the
hard questions yourself. Having worked for a computer manufacturer in the
past, I can assure you that the manufacturer would appreciate it if you
bought the last system to come off the production line, then never called
them for support. My company plans to continue operating our Tru64 systems
for several years to come, and they have provided wonderful service. But
we're purchasing new Sun systems.
"In this session, an HP Executive will highlight the important current and
future role HP's business critical and high performance AlphaServer(tm)
products play. We will also discuss the latest advancements across the hp
AlphaServer product family, the latest on the future Itanium® processor
family, and provide an update on the related operating systems strategy. In
particular, we will share the updated OpenVMS(tm) roadmap for continued
development and support on the AlphaServer platform as well as a review of
the progress to date for porting OpenVMS to Itanium®-based systems.
Discussion will also include the most up-to-the-minute plans for integrating
Tru64(tm) UNIX® into HP-UX on the Itanium® architecture and the continued
development and support of Tru64 UNIX on the AlphaServer platform."
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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I'd never heard that Oracle has stopped
or is stopping support for Tru64.
We have more than 35 production databases
on Tru64 and have no intention of moving
out of Alpha-Tru64 in a hurry. We're even
looking at upgrading a mission critical
8iOPS cluster on Tru64 to 9iRAC on Tru64.
Hemant K Chitale
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Sent: Sunday, 02 June, 2002 9:28 PM
> Stephane Faroult wrote:
>
> > ...Historically, Oracle was a port to
> > Digital (remember this brand?)
>
> Interesting. I'm reading this list because of a recent
> project to retire the Digital-Alpha workstations.
> The main reason that these machines must be de-commissioned is
> because Oracle stopped supporting Tru64.
> (Although it needs to be done EVENTUALLY, since Alpha
> is basicly dead anyway.)
>
> The Alphas were bought to retire the VMS from 4-7 years ago!
>
> Talk about unfortunate planning!
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