[geeks] HP announces EOL for AlphaServer systems

[Scott Howard]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 09:14:23PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> I wonder how they're going to pull this off, considering that the US
> Government requires major computer suppliers to support systems for
> something like six to ten years... unless they'll continue *support*
> of existing boxes until 2013 or so, just not sell you any new ones.

That'd be the bit which says `HP will support AlphaServer systems "at
least" until 2011 for the systems it's currently shipping.'

That's 5 years, which is pretty common for most high-end vendors.

  Scott