1 Aug
2014
1 Aug
'14
11:17 a.m.
On 7/31/2014 10:23 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
On Jul 31, 2014, at 9:40 PM, jwsmobile <jws at
jwsss.com> wrote:
The HP-UX had a reputation for transaction processing applications and
probably still does. I don't imagine a lot of new design wins are
happening but there are probably a lot of apps out there that when sold
or scaled are creating a large dollar and hardware demand for it.
I know it is a supported platform and an important one for a client I
have who supports a lot of platforms. No horizon for it anytime soon,
except for the availability of the Itanium parts and servers. I don't
know how HP is positioned for manufacturing their servers to ensure that
part of the food chain.
So when a major platform like VMS steps to what is probably going to be
a much more popular and longer lived platform that is very interesting
for all the remaining people on the Itanic who see that boat row away.
Read Tandem and HPUX as the majors. I know it was supported well by
Linux as well, but I don't know the proportion of hardware in that
area. Of course Microsoft quickly dumped it in the Windows 7 days as
far as supporting it with a server product that ran on it. (Windows 2003
server maybe?)
Now about the only thing are the twitching
corpses of HPUX and Tandem. I'll read the article / tea leaves (which have not yet
done) to see if there is any impact on this defection. Really the only thing out there
now is HPUX.
Isn't HP-UX basically dead, in favor of Linux? A long time ago,
in a Galaxy far, far away, I was a SysAdmin for several HP-UX systems, I don't miss
it. Apparently HP has ported the Tandem OS to Intel 64. I'm not sure what Bull's
plans are with GCOS, I was surprised when they ported GCOS-8 to Itanium (and I worked on a
GCOS-8 system).
Zane