Roadmap HP-UX - Itanium

[Jeff_Traigle]

If superiority ruled the marketplace, Windows wouldn't be so widespread. :)

[Court Campbell]

I cannot say I did not see this coming. Once Red Hat and Microsoft stopped developing on Itanium, I knew it had become the new PA-RISC. I don't see many costomers jumping ship just yet. I think it will all occur when most shops do their server refreshes, or when leases expire. In my case, I have worked in shops running Oracle E-bus. That is not exaclty a product you just dump. Lots of money goes into implemntation, development, training, etc. My assumption is thagt I will either be a Linux or Soalris admin in the future. But I do think it is too early to say. Maybe HP will port HPUX to Xeon. I am just going to take it one day at a time.

[Thomas S. Iversen.]

Pete, Itanium is a nice chip, and HP-UX is a nice OS (I make a living of it, amongst others), but Solaris on Sparc is on par with HP-UX on Itanium. And so is AIX on Power. All very nice operating systems on nice platforms.
IMO.

Any bets on the outcome?

1. HP closes down HP-UX within a given timeframe?
2. HP announces HP-UX for x86_64 on highend hardware (whatever that might be).
3. HP somehow makes Oracle retract the statement.

Thomas

[Wim Rombauts]

Or, HP teams up with EnterpriseDB to provide an Oracle-compatible database with a fraction of the cost.
The latest version of PostgreSQL Advanced Server will be available for HP-UX in the near future. If HP puts some effort in it and guarantees software compatibility, why not ?
And even if HP doesn't guarantee that, I think we will be running EnterpriseDB software in the very near future.