Tuesday, July 22, 2003

Rivals of HP court Tru64 users
Death of another DEC product. :-( HP is dropping Tru64, which is the Digital Unix for the Alpha. They are suggesting their users migrate to HP-UX. Sun is countering that, saying it would be easier for users to migrate to Solaris. I haven't used Tru64 that much, but I don't think either will be an easy migrate. Digital's Unix had some cool VMS capabilities built in, from what I remember. Things like the Distributed Resource Lock Manager for one. You just aren't going to find that on other platforms.

Well... at least they continue to support OpenVMS. No longer on the Alpha, instead on the Itanium... but at least it is still there.

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