On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, David Riley wrote:
But yes, there are still plenty of VMS shops that will
continue
using it until it becomes financially infeasible to do so. That
will be a long time, since HP has committed to support until 2020,
but unless they change their minds (not bloody likely), it's coming.
I'm particularly sad that they made the decision not to support the
Poulson processors, since that's the first iteration of the IA64
architecture that I actually found compelling, and I know I'm not
the only one.
I think we'll find VMS doing billable work for a long time similarly to
how PDPs are still found doing billable work. If anyone high up at HP has
any brains left, they'd find some way to open-source as much of VMS as
possible, preferably under a BSD-ish license.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at
cs.csubak.edu
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