4 Sep
2003
4 Sep
'03
10:29 p.m.
Eric,
It may not be as bad as it sounds. Just like the IA64 has ended up being
"finished" by a lot of Alpha Engineers (they got the last 150 from HP about a
month ago), it appears that next major version of HP/UX is going to end up being a lot
more "Tru64" than HP/UX. HP has made commitments to retain the distinguishing
features of Digital Unix, e.g. clustering and AdvFS, and they don't plan on offering
two parallel versions, one with and the other without. It will be easier to include the
"look and feel" of HP/UX into Tru64 - and call it HP/UX - than to make HP/UX do
*real* clustering.
It's sorta like buying a Bentley ... it's still mainly Rolls-Royce under the
skins.
Dale the DECdude
I really prefer Tru64. I'm really not happy that
HP is going with the
inferior HP/UX instead.