Re: Sun tries to woo AlphaServer users away from HP

From: Mike Naime (mnaime_at_kc.rr.com)
Date: 07/30/03 

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 04:31:35 GMT

Keith Parris <keithparris_NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:cf15391e.0307291812.3327f013@posting.google.com...
> In a campaign called 'HP Away', Sun is trying to take customers from
> HP, but based on the customers quoted in these articles, they aren't
> having much luck.
>

Why migrate? I have an old E-mail from one of our engineers boasting that
he was the first from our company to boot VMS on an IA64 on May 22 in Nashu
NH.

Our APP runs on both IBM and VMS.

Looks like we will be running for several years on our current alphaservers
anyways.

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