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Microsoft is abandoning Intel's Itanium platform after the current release of its server and tools software. The software giant said Monday that Windows Server 2008 R2 and the forthcoming SQL Server 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2010 would be the last versions of these server and tools products to run on Intel's giant chip …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    @Matt

    At the place where I currently work we have a pretty big OpenVMS installation. It's doing a rather critical part of financail transactions here. Maybe the biggest installation in Europe, actually. The problem is that the cluster can't be made bigger any more.

    Is HP not interested in *really* moving OpenVMS into the future ?

    (the institution is currently in the process of migrating to Linux..)

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      jlocke wrote: "Is HP not interested in *really* moving OpenVMS into the future ?"

      Not really - they got that from DEC/Compaq - and seem to only see it as a chance to "upgrade" folks to HP/UX.

      From a biz perspective I'd love to see OpenVMS on Xeon boxes, from a personal perspective then open source it as well.

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