Question?

[JorgeH]

if I buy a server in HP, I must pay HPUX or this is free? what is the purpose of the licenses? If the system does not bring installed HPUX, it brings the licenses including?

[Luk Vandenbussche · Accepted solution]

Hi Jorge,

The license is free. But you have to pay for the media.

Support and updates for the licenses are neither free.

I only speak for the base OS. You have to pay for all the license like fe Mirror/Ux

see also

http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/operating/index.html

[JorgeH]

thanks for your help

[Ted Buis]

It depends. On HP9000 pa-risc servers, the license to use is bundle with it. Note that it doesn't convey if you get a used server from a third party. On Integrity Itanium servers, the license is priced separately, since if you want to run LINUX or Windows you don't want to have the cost of HP-UX bundled into your server. No operating system is really free, since you always must consider the cost of support, even if you get a LINUX distribution like Debian and do it yourself. HP-UX always unbundles support from the OS license to use, so you realistically have to buy support for the OS on both HP9000 and Integrity servers.