[Vms.sig-hu] OpenVMS in the Press again - HP Preps Server Announcements for January 18 - OK for external use (fwd)

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Dátum: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:36:07 -0500
Feladó: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Címzett: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Tárgy: OpenVMS in the Press again -  HP Preps Server Announcements 
for January 18 - OK for external use

Dear Folks,

Many thanks to OpenVMS Ambassador Hector Rocha for forwarding.
URL: http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn011005-story01.html

The following is only a portion of the article.

Warm Regards,
Sue
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As is typical at HP announcements, Fiorina and Livermore are expected 
to
talk up HP's Adaptive Enterprise strategy, a term that describes the
company's attempt to transform itself as a vendor of IT solutions and
services that allow companies to be more flexible as markets and
business conditions change. Livermore is, in fact, hosting a Web chat on
Adaptive Enterprise. 

Marcello is probably not going to be just talking about enhancements to
the Integrity servers. It seems likely that HP will talk about OpenVMS,
too. Compaq started working on the OpenVMS port to Itanium before it 
was
acquired by HP, and HP has been working on it since then. The effort of
porting OpenVMS from the Alpha chip to the Itanium chip has taken 
more
than three and a half years. OpenVMS 8.1, the beta test release, was
being put through the paces last year, and OpenVMS 8.2, the 
production
release for Itanium, was expected to be delivered sometime in the 
second
half of 2004. That obviously didn't happen, and it has hurt HP's sales
in the past two quarters. If HP wants to boost its Integrity server
sales to fill in a gap caused by imploding AlphaServer sales, it needs
to get the vast OpenVMS base excited about moving to OpenVMS 8.2 on
Integrity servers, and it needs to announce OpenVMS 8.2 and a slew of
ready-to-rock VMS applications next week. Whether or not HP does this
remains to be seen, but the odds favor it. OpenVMS 8.2 will run on both
AlphaServer and Integrity machines, so companies will be able to move 
to
the new software first and new hardware later if they choose a two-
step
approach.