My organization narrowly avoided a business-crushing event a few months ago. Years of optimistic promises were finally put to rest and the sobering reality came to light: our legacy migration is, at best, going to be done in 3-5 years.
We were just barely within the window to order a pair of new servers before the Itanium order book closed forever. Naturally, our old servers are too old for VSI to support, so HP was willing to sell us a license to give us time to migrate from the old legacy servers to the new legacy servers. It came with a warning that THIS IS THE LAST OPENVMS LICENSE YOU WILL EVER GET FROM HP AND YOUR CEO MUST SIGN THIS BEFORE WE GIVE IT TO YOU.