> Denys writes:
>
> > However, August '95 in Toronto, Wim Rowlands from HP stated that NT
> > would NEVER run on PA-RISC.
> ...
> > BTW, Wim Rowlands left HP in early 1996.
> ...
> > One can only hope.
[snip]
>
> I suspect that it's another of those @#$% marketing decisions.  I
wouldn't
> be surprised to find out that the projected margin on PA-RISC NT boxes
> might be smaller than PA-RISC HP-UX boxes, and that each NT box sale
> would replace a would-be UX box sale.
>
> --
> Stan Sieler
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Seems to me a PA-RISC NT box sold would be a Digital Alpha cluster NT
box not sold... I think we'll see PA-7xxx NT soon after 64 bit Unix is
out the door on PA-8000 next year. HP software is taking NT-on-Intel far
more seriously than 3000 software. Perhaps HP will wait for the HP-Intel
chip to use NT on larger systems so they can still call them Netservers,
but why leave the field open to Digital (and IBM? and ??). The field
engineers are trained and ready, so what else could HP be waiting for
but the "right" market conditions?  What I want to know is if HP will
setup another division for NT on PA-RISC, in addition to CSY and GSY,
maybe MSY? Then all the HP-UX users can complain when Unix is left out
of marketing by this new group. (BTW, what is the Netserver division
called? Is it a bigger business than the 3000s?)
 
Richard (email: [log in to unmask])