Re: Itanium lap tops are needed now!

Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote:
> a graphics card", which is a workstation by any other name. It would be
> nice to see that trend continue, but I still detect the ghost of Bob
> Palmer.


Marcello was quoted bragging about being the one bright light in HP who
decided to announce IA64 was to be limited to the high end market niche.

On the other end, by doing so, Marcello is ensuring IA64 dies more
quickly. The only question is when/if VMS will be ported to HP's
surviving platform. (the 8086).


>From a market point of view, when you look at what Linux has been able
to do, there is 0 reason for a solid and suported system such as VMS to
make it head to head against Linux and Windows on the 8086 platform.

And given IA64's limited markets, it sio ludicrous to limit VMS to that
one market when it could reach a whole lot more customers if it ran on
industry standard stuff.

>From HP's point of view, having VMS on the 8086 would increase the 8086
server/desktops sales, the one big metric that is used to compare HP
against others.

And HP needs to understand that if VMS steals a windows sale, it is
still revenu that goes to HP. Same for stealing Linux or HP-UX sales.


And just look at how quickly ISVs are ramping up applictaions on Linux,
an os that was just a hacker's toy not long ago.

Give VMS a chance. It won't hurt HP to port it to the 8086 since all VMS
sales will go towards increasing HP sales.
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