IBM Buys Rational for $2.1Billion!

[Jerry Feldman]

When the Copmpaq/Intel agreement was announced last year (was it Aug, 2001) 
there was a discussion with Rational regarding the port, but be continued 
the port until last April when we completed Beta and released the final 
product. Rational then decided not to release it. Don't know if that was an 
HP or Rational decision. Since then up until finishing my contact last 
week, I was working on the Tru64 Unix to HP-UX on Itanium Porting Guide. 
Most of that team was from the Purify team since much of the Purify stuff 
was done for HP-UX.
While emotionally, it is kind of sad to see the Alpha goe EOL, it is time 
for a new generation, and the Itanium is one of the next generation chips. 
(The Alpha is over 10 years old, and still pretty much the fastest RISC 
chip).
pll at lanminds.com wrote:

> Ahh, and they just anounced EOL for the Alpha today as well :)
> 
> Today is just full of good news, isn't it ?
> -- 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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