1 Aug
2014
1 Aug
'14
8:50 a.m.
On Aug 1, 2014, at 1:23 AM, Zane Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
On Jul 31, 2014, at 9:40 PM, jwsmobile <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
Not totally dead; it actually has a lot of virtualization features
and platform management for HP platforms that Linux does not have;
in a number of cases, they've kept that more up to date than they
have for VMS.
I don't think they're doing anything new and exciting with it,
though; just maintaining it for the customers for whom they've
promised support. There was a nascent pseudo-hobbyist program for
it a long time back, but I understand it's been axed for a while.
- Dave
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).