Everhart, Glenn
From:	helbig@man.ac.uk
Sent:	Sunday, July 05, 1998 10:43 AM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	Official Digital indefinite commitment in writing to workstation VMS
I've just been rearranging some things in my office after having been 
away for a while (and making room for some used Digital Equipment I was 
fortunate enough to have picked up) and ran across the (German language) 
DECUS Bulletin #73 from August 1997.  There is a supplement called `209 
questions to Digital and 209 answers'.  The third question (my 
translation) is

   How long will DIGITAL continue to offer PCI-AlphaStations with
   OpenVMS? 

and the answer is

   DIGITAL will continue to offer PCI based AlphaStations as long as 
   both technologies (PCI or ALPHA) exist, that is, long into the next
   century.  All future workstations from DIGITAL's AlphaStation series
   will continue to support OpenVMS as a strategic product.

Now, in detail, one could say that this commitment only applies to the 
ALPHAstation series---call it something else, and the commitment no 
longer exists.  But if this was the intention, as an answer to the 
question it is very misleading.


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