30-Jun-2003

OpenVMS 8.0 ships

From: Gorham, Mark
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 1:26 PM
To: Skonetski, Susan; Schimel, Lin
Subject: FW: VMS V8.0, first release on Itanium, ships today!!!

I am very pleased to be able to announce HP OpenVMS for Integrity Systems V8.0 has been shipped to 10 evaluation customers today, June 30, 2003. This is the result of 24 months of work by a creative and dedicated team of engineers. Today you probably also heard about the great new Itanium-based systems from HP, with a new brand name of HP Integrity Servers. These include for the first time Superdome systems - up to 64 CPUs per server shipping in August!

For our first release, we intended to ship a lightweight OS, two network stacks, and some cross compilers and development tools to allow our key horizontal ISVs to start moving their applications to Itanium. We have greatly exceeded this in 8.0, adding clustering (we even have mixed architecture Alpha/Integrity clustering!!!), SMP (symmetric multi processing), DFS, XFC (extended file cache), Ramdisk, and ZIP/UNZIP. Stability is much better than expected, and we have already established with one customer's application a proof point for recompile/relink application portability between Alpha and Itanium.

Work with key ISVs starts immediately. Our FastTrack program will use our lab and central engineering resources to accelerate ISV adoption.

We are on track to ship V8.1 in December of this year, and to ship V8.2, our first production-quality release of OpenVMS on Itanium systems, in H2 2004.

Other than the number of exclamation marks, this is wonderful news from the OpenVMS Engineering organisation. Not only are they on track, they are exceeding expectations.

Posted at June 30, 2003 1:47 PM
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