The long-awaited port of HP’s OpenVMS to Intel’s Itanium is set for full release next year, as are plans to move Tru64 Unix features into HP-UX. The announcements came as HP introduced its new Alpha servers, based on the EV7 chip, plus a strategy to migrate Alpha users to Itanium servers over the next three to eight years.
Plans are to sell new Alpha systems through
2006 and support them through 2011.
Does this mean that beyond 2006, Alpha hardware will cease to be manufactured?
Are still supported and they should be dead by the initial plans. People did not migrate.
On the same line what does HP wants to do with the Himalya line ?
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It seems that Alpha computers would be manufactured up to 2009 (and support up to 2014) as CQ has contract engagement of delivery with government organisations…
but maybe not for all people 😉
HP and Intel plan to do away with Alpha,
but can’t do it as quietly as they’ve been
able to force starve PA-RISC system business.
These (Alpha, PA-RISC) leading architectures
are doomed since Intel’s been able to induce
almost everyone into commitments to their
low-efficiency CPU products. Think Tru64
will survive on a long roadmap? (There’s
little hope for anti-trust remedies — Intel
has gained HP, seem to be trying at IBM too)
Hope the HP Way will make a comeback …
Thanks for posting this. Interesting tidbits like this are one of the main reasons I read OSNEWS.
That HP/Compaq are the puppets of Intel. I mean the EV7 1GHz perform as well as the Itanium 2 from Intel, and the 1.25GHz version seems to be out already, this would be a major contender to displacing the new Itanium from Intel and yet provide us with plenty software, a few stable strong OSes and a way to satisfy all those alpha addicts (I know I’m one.)
Come on HP, put some money on Alpha R&D to push the alpha clock up a bit and take over Intel!
"On the same line what does HP wants to do with the Himalya line ?"
Hp seem quite intent on keeping the Himalaya/Tandem/NonStop servers going.
I read an article in one of the Canadian IT trade papers where they consider the Tandem/NonStop servers as “coming home”, since Tandem Computers was originally created by a former HP employee.
Having worked on the NonStop servers over the last 5 years, I think they will be around for a long time.
They have a large market share in the US and in Europe.
I’ve been trying to find some Web sites that advocate OpenVMS but haven’t found a lot that have real comparisons. I’ve always heard VMSers say their OS is more secure than Unix but I’d like to see someone say why they believe it is so. And no, the number of CERT releases doesn’t count as a proof.
What exactly does VMS that other operating systems can not?
Is it monolithic or microkernel?
Is it available on x86?
Do we have performance tests against other operating systems?
Does it have a GUI?
How is its performance on graphics and other common tasks?
Where can we find more information?
go to http://www.openvms.org and then go down to the webring link and get a list of sites. From there you can find probably links to links that provide what information is available on OpenVMS.
VMS is one of the most impressive OSes out there. It goes straight against the UNIX way of doing things. It’s absolutely amazing how lost I feel in that OS, and it only makes me want to learn more, since you just know that the OS is really… designed.