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To: Paul Engel who wrote (157515)	2/1/2002 12:53:24 PM
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Compaq boots VMS on Itanic Parallel Lines By Mike Magee, 01/02/2002 11:16:30 BST THE PORT OF VMS to the Itanium platform is moving quickly, Compaq has told the INQUIRER, with engineers already booting the OS on Intel chips. But there's obviously still a way to go, the company has cautioned. Richard George, European marketing director of Compaq's Alpha group, also moved to reassure his customers that whatever happened with Hewlett Packard, and merger or no merger, his company was committed to both developing and supporting its Unix - Tru64 - for at least 12 years. That commitment was part of contracts it had entered into with various of Compaq's customers, he said. After the merger, Compaq will work with HP to produce a converged version - known in the trade as Itanium Unix, and that will feature embedded clustering technology he said. Porting VMS to the Itanium platform was a simpler matter than porting it from the VAX to the Alpha platform, he claimed. That required tens of thousands of software modules, while so far moving from Alpha to VMS has only taken 50 software modules, he said. There is, however, a great deal of work to be done on compiler, application, middleware and other technology before the formal release of VMS for the Itanium, probably in mid 2005. µ theinquirer.net