Re: List active ?

[George France <france@handhelds.org>]

On Saturday 11 October 2003 08:41 am, Oliver Pitzeier wrote:
> Hi George!
>
> > On Friday 10 October 2003 11:17 pm, Alan Bort wrote:
> > > And lets be realistic, there are not many Alpha left in this world,
> >
> > There are many Alphas remaining.  Many that run Linux.  Many
> > more that run Tru64 and OpenVMS.  You can still buy shinny new
> > alpha systems.
>
> But what for should anyone buy alphas today? If they need 64-bit, they buy
> Itanium, which is cheaper... If they need good performance, they buy a
> four-way-Xeon-system - which _is_ faster than a ES45 for example....
>

I think you might want to recheck those benchmarks. :-)

> > Alpha is  going away, but it is not gone yet.
>
> HP is letting Alpha die... They didn't annouce the newest alpha-chip a few
> months ago (EV78!?)...
>
> [ ... ]
>
> > or they have service agreements with HP.
>
> Or still some old Compaq service level agreements... :-P But they do not
> know much about Linux on Alpha... At least here in Austria......
>

You can purchase a support contract today from HP.  If you have any problems 
doing so, please let me know.  I would be happy to contact my service 
Representative and get you the proper paperwork.  :-)  It may be true that in 
Austria, that they do not know much about Linux on Alpha, but if you have a 
service agreement, you can have your service request pushed up to the next 
higher level.  Eventually your issue will reach Nashua, NH in the USA were 
there are people that know about Linux and the Alpha Architecture.

Best Regards,


--George