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| | Compaq responds to Gartner Itanium scepticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Gartner assessment: The full porting will cost no more than $40 million over a three-year period, although the entire cost, including e-business infrastructure, scaling, system management and other modernizing capabilities, will run to about $200 million. |
 | | Gartner assessment: "according to Compaq's records, [OpenVMS installed base] stands at 400,000 systems although we believe active production systems could be 30 percent to 40 percent lower, with a large-enough maintenance revenue stream (estimated at more than $1 billion annually) that is too high to ignore. |
 | | Gartner is asking our OpenVMS customers to give up the availability, reliability, scalability, and security their businesses depend upon while at the same time creating unnecessary migration costs for an unstated benefit. |
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