My dad worked in the Alpha memory dept at DEC / Compaq / HP. They continued supporting Alpha servers long after they stopped selling them to new customers. Wiki

My dad worked in the Alpha memory dept at DEC / Compaq / HP. They continued supporting Alpha servers long after they stopped selling them to new customers. Wikipedia says 2007 which sounds about right. Customers spent hundreds of thousands on these systems and, from what I was told, really liked them. They still performed well when they ended support and laid off everyone on the Alpha teams, including my dad.