RE: Sun tries to woo AlphaServer users away from HP

From: Tom Linden (tom_at_kednos.com)
Date: 07/30/03 

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:17:30 -0700

Jeff, send me an email offline and I will add you to our distribution
list for PL/I, if you are interested. We just released version 4.4 on the
20th of July.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Goodwin [mailto:jgoodwin@maine.rrr-r.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 5:32 AM
>To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
>Subject: Re: Sun tries to woo AlphaServer users away from HP
>
>
>
>I got a call from Sun a couple of weeks ago concerning HP's mythical
>announcement that OpenVMS had been EOL'd. By now, I suspect most remaining
>OpenVMS customers are on to this re-occurring deception.
>
>Unfortunately, it will be Digital/Compaq/HP's pathetic treatment
>of the PL/1
>compiler that will eventually drive our company to another vendor. (No,
>we're not converting it to C++ so we can run on IPF. If we have to perform
>a large-scale conversion, it'll be away from the company that
>forced us into
>the conversion). Based on what other divisions are doing in this company,
>there's a good chance that vendor will be Sun.
>
>-Jeff
>
>"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.
>>
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