topic Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued in Operating System - HP-UX

HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

Mike Bruner — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:48:28 GMT

Is there any written documentation available that says HP-UX 11.0 is going obsolete in 2004?

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

Pete Randall — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:49:42 GMT

Nothing yet.

Pete

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

Mike Bruner — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:53:52 GMT

Somebody read something to me that he got off the web that indicated 11.0 was being discontinued 3/31/04, but he doesn't reme,ber where he got it from.

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:54:39 GMT

Gosh - I hope not.
I'm just now upgrading my few remaining 10.2 systems - but I am going to 11i with them.
But we've got hundreds of 11.0 systems.
I don't think we could upgrade them all in a year.

Cheers,
Jeff

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

Patrick Wallek — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:55:36 GMT

Check this URL:
http://www.software.hp.com/RELEASES-MEDIA/history/slide2.html

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:57:15 GMT

Whew!!!
Thanks Patrick.
I'll sleep better tonight.

Later,
Jeff

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

Mike Bruner — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:57:33 GMT

This would only mean 11.0 would not be sold any longer, but it would still be supported.

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:59:13 GMT

Mike,

Yea - you're correct.
But it would still be quite the chore to do in 2 years.

Rgds,
Jeff

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

Mike Bruner — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 20:00:18 GMT

I wouldn't get too comfortable, I think that the information I heard is valid, I just need to see it in writing. The person I heard it from said he also heard it in a weninar this morning.

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

Pete Randall — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 20:04:54 GMT

I've been gradually moving my systems to 11i anyway - just because I'm paranoid - but if you look at Patrick's chart, there's a 4 and a half year gap between the end of support for 9.04 and 10.20. Extrapolation puts 11.0 end of support way out there in 2007.

(but I'm still migrating)

Pete

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

Patrick Wallek — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 20:11:16 GMT

Here's the HP-UX 11.0 info. site:
http://www.hp.com/workstations/risc/standard/operating/hpux11/overview.html

I do not see anything here either about HP-UX 11.0 being discontinued.

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

John Payne_2 — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 20:13:20 GMT

Unless you were in an NDA webinar, I can't imagine that they'd anounce the obsoleting of the OS in 14 months time. That means discontinuing in 2 months time...

It will happen. The newer processors and bigger machines are 11i only, but the schedule seems advanced. I could see a dicontinuance in 14 months and it being obsoleted in 26 months, but who knows.

If you hear anything more, let us know...

John

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 20:24:37 GMT

Here is what I want to know.

When is HP-UX 12 coming?

In general, they have always had two as a minimum number of releases supported. Usually three.

When support drops and you stop getting quality packs and patches, thats a critical time frame, not when they stop selling the OS new.

P

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

John Bolene — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 20:43:12 GMT

But you realize that that was the OLD HP.

We are now with the NEW HP.

I can see not supporting older versions quicker to reduce the maintenance dollars that HP spends.

It takes fewer people to maintain fewer versions.

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

Martin Johnson — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:08:53 GMT

The important point is not such the support of the OS but the applications that *run* on the OS. The current release of OpenView Operations (OVO) is 7.10. In the release notes, it says the next version of OVO will *not* support HPUX 11.0.

If I need the functionality of the next release, I'm forced to upgrade the OS regardless of whether HP is supporting 11.0 or not.

:-(
Marty

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

paul courry — Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:44:34 GMT

Sitting here, doing sys admin work on an HP3000 and looking for a job as a Unix sys admin I remember when HP promised us the moon, stars and IA64 running MPE.

Beware the Ides of March! I forsee the day HP announces the EOS for HPUX in favor of Linux and I forsee it coming quickly!

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

Martha Mueller — Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:43:43 GMT

Martin,

Thank you for posting that information. I, too, am dismayed by the lack of HP-UX software. Most things that I look at from HP are intended to run on windows. Even the new OmniBack, now named Data Protector 5.1, seems to be a port from windows. The gui for HP-UX doesn't work with ReflectionX, and support advised us to install the user interface for windows. There is a process now running in HP-UX named windu_registryd44 that appears to be a windows registry process ported to HP-UX.

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

Dave La Mar — Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:03:45 GMT

Forum -
Just got this from our ASE

http://www.software.hp.com/RELEASES-MEDIA/history/slide2.html

dl

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

Jose Mosquera — Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:08:59 GMT

Hi,

In March 31th, 2004 HP will remove 11.0 from Corporate Price List.
In December 31th 2006 HP won't offer you any support on 11.0

Rgds

Re: HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:17:15 GMT

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the link.

Cheers,
Jeff