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From: lampi@polari.UUCP (Michael Lampi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: ADUS conference news
Summary: We need clarification by HP/Apollo - too much misinformation on net.
Keywords: ADUS DN10K OSF upgrades
Message-ID: <2604@polari.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 90 21:22:33 GMT
References: <9010191532.AA20967@richter.mit.edu>
Organization: MDL Corporation (206) 643-7333
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In article <9010191532.AA20967@richter.mit.edu> krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) writes:
>Over a year and a half ago, just after HP had purchased Apollo, several
 [.....]
>
>The 2X CPU upgrade has still not been delivered.
   At ADUS this was announced as 'coming shortly' (A real date was mentioned,
   but I forget when.)
>The merged HP-PA/PRISM CPU is not going to be developed.
   At ADUS this was announced as coming in 1.5 to 2 years.
>OSF will not be ported to any DN platform.
   At ADUS HP/Apollo felt a LOT of heat from users on this, even though HP
   said that they would support the OSF DCE on DN3500, etc., platforms. Just
   not OSF itself.
>The majority of the people I used to know and correspond with in
>Chelmsford have left the company.
   Things change when companies merge. This can be good or bad, depending on
   your viewpoint. In any event, it is up to us to make sure that things get
   better (via our response) - feedback is vital!
>
>Workstations, in general, have about a 3 year lifetime from product
>introduction to the end of production. Software obsolecense begins
>about 3.5 ro 4 years after the product introduction, and becomes a
[....]
>after their purchase. Such is the workstation market. You buy a
>machine with the expectation of getting 18 months of good use out
>of it, another 18 months of ok-but-not-great work out of it, and
>then 18 months of struggling to keep it alive. Then you throw it
>out. 
>
>
> -- David Krowitz

Of course, the introduction of the '5500' upgrade, and its subsequent
'obsolescence' 4 or 5 months later is rather absurd.

One thing that has been prevalent in this thread is the statement that there
will be no further releases of Domain after 10.3. This is NOT what I heard!
Rather, 10.3 is the last release to talk to 9.7.X systems, which is in
keeping with HP/Apollo's policy of supporting the two most current major
versions of the operating system. SR 11 will be out next year, and there are
(so I am told) plans for an SR 12.

Anyway, we need better clarification of all these issues on the net by
appropriate people at HP

Michael Lampi