Re: The Alpha is an end of life product Re: Ultrasparc III docume ntation

[Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Tyler Hardison wrote:

> 
> >The Alpha is basically end of life, the EV8 was killed.  HP does plan on
> >shipping EV7 based systems for a couple of years, but then it's gone.
> 
> This statement is incorrect. HP has committed to two more versions of the
> Alpha. This came straight from the horses mouth. HP will have a hard time
> killing the alpha considering the large armada of Alpha users in the
> financial world. Considering that the itanium is a pile of silicon-valley
> camel dung. :-)
> 
> Tyler.

HP commitment is to a couple iterations of the EV7 and how many years do
you think that will take them to get to market.  Sure they will continue
to support their current customers, but the Alpha is a dead end product.
If you want to argue that point go ahead.  All I know is that at my day
job I have a lot of contact with HP nee Compaq nee Digital people and if
the Alpha wasn't almost gone our next super computer would be running on
Alpha's and not Hammers.  Figure out where I work and you win the prize.

diana