From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net
In article <1080ba7$3dju4$1@dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>On 8/18/2025 6:31 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> 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.
>
>If the plan is to migrate off VMS in let us say 5-8 years, then
>they would go to IslandCo and buy a bunch of spare servers and
>various spare parts and put it on the shelf.
I guess you didn't like the joke ("Itanium" is alliterative with
"unobtanium"). Oh well, it's been said that the pun is the
lowest form of humor, so perhaps I can't blame you.
- Dan C.
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