HP-UX 11.0 Discontinued

[Mike Bruner]

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

[Pete Randall]

Nothing yet.

Pete

[Mike Bruner]

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.

[Jeff Schussele]

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

[Patrick Wallek]

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

[Jeff Schussele]

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

Later,
Jeff

[Mike Bruner]

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

[Jeff Schussele]

Mike,

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

Rgds,
Jeff

[Mike Bruner]

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.

[Pete Randall]

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

[Patrick Wallek]

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.

[John Payne_2]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[John Bolene]

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.

[Martin Johnson]

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

[paul courry]

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!

[Martha Mueller]

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.

[Dave La Mar]

Forum -
Just got this from our ASE

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

dl

[Jose Mosquera]

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

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the link.

Cheers,
Jeff

[someone_4]

Hi everyone,

I am just wondering if anyone knows how this would affect the HP Cert?


Richard

[Ian Kidd_1]

In response to Paul Courry's post - I agree whole-heartedly. There's been rumblings (although I haven't heard anything "Official") that HP-UX as we know it will eventually disappear in favor of an OS based on Linux. We're talking about years from now though.

Let me stress - this is an unsubstantiated rumor. But it's one several of us have heard.

[John Payne_2]

Ok, so knowing this, what I want to know now is:

Are they going to start getting rid of all the crap that is still in the system that has been there to be backward compatable with HPUX 10.20?

For instance, having a hostname of greater than 8 characters...

John