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Article #620226Re: Soon, the Only Alternatives to Windows Server will be open-source
From: Quadibloc
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 05:13
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 05:13
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On Sunday, February 4, 2018 at 9:12:47 PM UTC-7, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Good grief, they're still supporting Itanic???? And still aren't > supporting x86-64???? Considering that OpenVMS was a DEC operating system, and DEC got bought by Compaq which got bought by Hewlett-Packard, home of PA-RISC... they're supporting the Itanium because they have *existing customers* on it, and they will move to x86-64 in the future to try to get *new* customers. Given that people with x86-64 boxes have other operating systems to choose from, gaining customers from there for OpenVMS will be an uphill battle. So giving a higher priority to keeping the locked-in customers one already has is entirely sensible. John Savard
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