Re: Did someone ask HP for VAX to Itanium cluster possibilities?

From: Stanley F. Quayle (stan_at_stanq.com)
Date: 10/18/03


Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:42:35 -0400

On 18 Oct 2003 at 0:46, Didier Morandi wrote:
> "Note that mixed architecture clusters of Alpha and Itanium will be
> supported. We will continue to support mixed VAX and Alpha environments.
> However, because there has been no demand for it our current plans do
> not include support for VAX and Itanium".
>
> Wrong. I answered the survey, I remember very well the question and I
> did ask for this feature.

I asked for this feature, too. But most of the people living on
comp.os.vms don't count.

The REAL issue is that I didn't back it up with a promise to buy a
bunch of Itanium boxes. Heck, I don't think I've ever bought a *new*
VMS system -- Island Computer and eBay don't count...

--Stan Quayle
Quayle Consulting Inc.

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