Re: HP wasting millions of dollars on itanium!

JF Mezei schrieb:

What SHOULD be relevant is what shareholeders want. And shareholders do not want HP to jeoperdise its own profits just to support a mistake made many years ago.

I don't think you have to protect the poor shareholders
from evil HP management. Obviously they are happy with
HPs actions.


Considering that VAX development, except perhaps for DCPS has come to a standstill, all those support contracts HP still has for the 100k vax customers (1/3 of the VMS installed base) are just raw profit.

still, they have to provide defect support.

It is the support of that IA64 aberration which is not profitable because you have so few customers on that platform, and it is costly because of its totally different compilers etc etc etc.

AFAIK the port to IA64 is largely subsidized by intel,
so why is it costly to HP ? What *would* be costly
is a port to x86. Leavin aside the multiple statements
by HP representatives that it wont happen,
even if they start now, it would need a
boatload of money and several years to achieve that.
And it is very doubtful if a significant number
of ISVs and customers would be left over after such a long period.


However, because both PaRisc and Alpha are still viable at customer sites and represent the largest installed base, announcing the end of IA64 would simply be a sigh of relief for customers who would then be able to postpone forced migrations until their OS is available on its final long term platform (the 8086).

why do you think customers suffer ?
Do you know all of them ? (HP certainly does)
PA and alpha are hardly viable know, and in view of the
competition will become even more incompetitive during
your proposed transition to x86 (I think we can safely
exclude the 16-bit 8086 of 1979 vintage here).
Blowing up the itanic right
now would leave both, VMS and HP-UX without any upgrade path
for several years. I think even you can imagine the consequences.

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