reasuring words from HP/Compaq.

["Peter Petrakis" <voodoo alphadriven org>]

Judge for yourself. 

http://www.compaq.com/hps/download/5_6_hp_newsletter.pdf

See page 9.

Q: Will Red Hat and Suse continue to support
their Linux distributions on Alpha?

A. Both Red Hat and SuSE are committed to continuing
to support Alpha Linux. V7.1 of Red Hat Linux
supports Alpha today, and Red Hat announced in
January 2002 their plans to port Red Hat Linux 7.2
to Alpha with an availability in Q2. SuSE Linux V7.1
supports Alpha today, and they plan to support
Alpha with V8 as well. Moving forward, we plan to
contract with Red Hat and SuSE to have one major
release per year.


I particularly like the next Q/A WRT to VMS migration.

Q: Will you offer a migration path to HP-UX?

A: Yes. We believe HP-UX on Itanium is an excellent
long-term choice for OpenVMS customers, but we
want to support them moving on their own timetable.
We will be evaluating what new tools and services
may be required to help them transition to HP-UX
if they so desire.

Hmmmmm, :-). 

Peter
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