Alpha was on life support by the time Compaq bought DEC. AXP was literally one of the things that basically killed DEC. By the time HP bought Compaq, AXP was o

Alpha was on life support by the time Compaq bought DEC. AXP was literally one of the things that basically killed DEC. By the time HP bought Compaq, AXP was on legacy mode. Plus Itanium was as much of an HP architecture as it was intel's, so it made no sense for HP to develop AXP further.