[rescue] Solaris on a PPC (now VMS)

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:16:55PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 06:12 PM, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > Not many people are ready to spend big $$$ for OSs that they think the
> > owners are eager to kill.  Then there was that whole replace everything
> > with unix phase before that, etc.
> 
>    The owners are eager to kill it, but that doesn't mean they can.  I 
> seem to recall reading some time ago (about when they discontinued the 
> VAX) that they're contractually obligated to maintain VMS until 
> something like 2014.

Never heard that before.  I haven't seen any sign that they aren't eager
to be rid of it.
 
>    Besides...Even Fiorina isn't stupid enough to leave THAT much money 
> sitting on the table.

I wouldn't care to bet on that personally.