[Vms.sig-hu] OpenVMS Pearl for Thursday May 6th - Public information - CNET article (fwd)

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Dear Folks,

I will be out of the office for the rest of the week but I wanted to get
tomorrow's OpenVMS Pearl out to you.  

Many Thanks to Mark LePage OpenVMS Engineering for forwarding.

Warm Regards,
Sue


URL http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5206065.html?tag=nefd.top

HP's 'adaptive enterprise' still murky for some
Last modified: May 5, 2004, 6:31 AM PDT
By Matt Loney 
Special to CNET News.com

               
MUNICH, Germany--HP's introduction of the Darwin Reference 
Architecture
at a customer event here this week did little to help customers grapple
with the elusive concept of the "adaptive enterprise." 

As HP celebrated the first birthday of its vision of the adaptive
enterprise concept, the company and its customers still seemed a little
unsure of just what it is. 

HP executives at the ENSA at Work event, which attracted 5,400 
attendees,
devoted a great deal of keynote time to further explanations of the
concept. The general idea is one of helping customers respond more
quickly to changes in their operations by linking business processes
more tightly with IT products. 

Nora Denzel, HP's senior vice president of adaptive enterprise and
software, discussed the concept of the Darwin Reference Architecture, 
an
element of the adaptive enterprise strategy, during a keynote speech
Wednesday morning. Some who heard the term took it to mean the
forthcoming extinction of the PA-RISC, Alpha and MIPS chips from the
company's servers. 

"Where is the adaptive enterprise?" asked Reg Palmer, OpenVMS 
systems
manager and Tru64 administrator at Centrica, the company that owns
British Gas, the AA and Onetel. Pointing to the stands which several
conference-goers noted had the feeling of a school science project, he
said, "Show it to me." 

If the adaptive enterprise eluded Palmer, the sense of what a lot of HP
is doing with its platform strategy was not lost on him. "It did come as
a nasty shock," said Palmer, referring to the first time he heard that
the Alpha chip would be discontinued, "but if there will be no
performance advantage in the future to justify the cost, then it makes
sense, and we are now able to see a way ahead." 

In the future, Palmer said, he will be able to run Windows, Linux and
OpenVMS on HP's Superdome servers. "So it turns out the processors 
will
be Itaniums," he said with a shrug. "I really don't care (so long as the
operating systems run). It will help, as more Tru64 features find their
way into HP-UX (HP's flavor of Unix)."

By the end of the year, said HP's Paul Miller, vice president of
marketing for industry standard servers, customers will be able to run
OpenVMS on Itanium. Although the company does not publicize the fact,
customers can already buy Itanium systems with a prerelease version 
of
OpenVMS 8.1. 

Customers like Palmer may be able to see a way ahead, but on 
Wednesday
morning it was by all accounts still a little fuzzy. "We run a lot of
critical systems on VMS and Tru64, and we'll keep those for several
years yet," Palmer noted. "After that, I don't know. But if all this
adaptive enterprise stuff means taking what you want, then maybe it's
going to be a good thing."


Matt Loney reports for London-based ZDNet UK.