From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net   
      
   In article <107r3h2$1vod3$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Arne Vajhøj   wrote:   
   >On 8/16/2025 6:46 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote:   
   >> Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   >>> It would not make sense for Oracle to port if they expect   
   >>> customers to migrate away in a few years.   
   >>>   
   >>> And it would not make sense for customers to move to x86-64   
   >>> and migrate away in a few years.   
   >>   
   >> Why not?  Succesful platform migration may take a lot of time.   
   >> When migration is done in incremental way important part is   
   >> increasing portability of source code.  During that production   
   >> runs on existing system, in this case VMS.  Assuming that x86-64   
   >> part is succesful, that is VSI customers can easily move   
   >> software to x86-64 VMS, it make sense to use x86-64 as intermedite   
   >> step.  Namely, one has gain on hardware side, that is ability to   
   >> retire old hardware and run on new one.  And move to x86-64 can   
   >> test some aspects of migration, before it is fully done.   
   >   
   >If they were to migrate it would be lower cost to stay   
   >on Itanium and just do one migration instead of two. From   
   >VMS Itanium to VMS x86-64 may not require any code changes, but   
   >planning, project management, test etc. still make it expensive.   
   >   
   >Any incremental increase of code portability could just as   
   >well be done on Itanium.   
      
   Well, except that Itanium hardware is becoming increasingly   
   unobtainium.   
      
   >Unless support for newer C++ standards   
   >is important.   
      
   Or one wants to run virtualized in the cloud for scalability and   
   redundency reasons, or possibly any number of other reasons.   
      
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