Actually I don't believe there is any migrating to do.
Rather the chips are merging and the OS, ie Windows, OpenVMS,
and Trunix will all run on the same cpu.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas B. Jones [mailto:douglas_at_gpc.peachnet.edu]
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 12:47 PM
> To: tru64 unix-managers
> Cc: Douglas B Jones
> Subject: the alpha/intel situation - Compaq employees should read
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Just out of curiosity, I have yet to see anything in any
> article that says hey, we will give you a migration path
> from alpha to intel. Someone from Compaq should post to
> this group and tell us what is going to happen here. I,
> and I imagine others, feel they have been lied to by
> Compaq. Now, to here the Chairman and CEO of Compaq talk
> about how great the intel chip is and his quote at the
> end of:
>
> http://www.compaq.com/newsroom/pr/2001/pr2001062501.html
>
> which says:
>
> '"We will continue to invest aggressively in scale-up and scale-out of
> Microsoft technology," Michael Capellas said. "And we will
> continue to work
> closely with Microsoft to drive the next generation of Web
> services and Web
> delivery through Microsoft. NET."'
>
> scares the heck out of me. Do I see VMS or Tru64 on intel chips
> in a few years? Really, if I had known this a few months ago
> I don't know if I would have recommended that we stay with Compaq.
> Especially after seeing this quote above. I get the feeling that
> compaq/intel will be supporting ms products in the future and not
> other os's such as VMS or Tru64. Maybe Linux will hang in there,
> but I even question what support Compaq will give them in the future.
>
> I am really concerned, since we just bought two es40s. What will
> be our migration path be in the future? Switch over to windows on
> a nice intel processor? I really don't see Compaq supporting Tru64
> or any UNIX in the future.
>
> Someone high up in Compaq care to make a statement?
>
> One other notes: How many deals did Compaq just loose by this
> announcement? What about the super computer centers that use
> alpha lines? Back to our small shop - we don't want to have
> to by whole new computers just to upgrade to a faster cpus.
> Will we have to do that and by new memory to work with intel
> machines, assuming they still support Tru64?
>
> Someone from Compaq really needs to make some official announcements
> about supporting a switch over and that it will continue to support
> such. It want do any good to say we will support a switch over for
> the next 3 years, since some people by servers to last longer than
> that before they expect to upgrade.
>
> Please, someone from Compaq make an official announcement here
> and on the compaq site. This should have been announced with the
> announcement that you were dropping alpha. But, then again, I
> already feel like I was lied to by compaq, as I also feel that
> the re-sellers we work with were lied to.
>
> Cheers,
> Douglas
>
Received on Mon Jun 25 2001 - 19:12:43 NZST