What is the strategy for HP-UX Workstation product line?

[HPEForumUser]

I have a question about HP/UX Workstation product line. Where is HP/UX standing on the market today? According to some text materials including some notes from HPEs community forum HP/UX is uncertain. What I understand Intel stopped producing Intanium chips? I guess this is direct related to the fact that Linux marched in to the server & workstation market and it became sort of a tremble in market in where IBM and HP where market leaders but suddenly you could run cheap Workstation & server environment on X86. And at the same time Intel where developing Itanium. Also Intel competed against them self in sort of, Itanium became a great cost and it did not get the market share as what they expected? Or why did Intel not continue its Itanium architecture for HP/UX?

  I read up on an article by CNET from 2010 regarding the ongoing market during that time. an HPE representant, Mahony said: in the long term, HP expects more Linux and Windows zx2000 systems to ship than HP-UX. For the higher-end zx6000, he said he expects Linux to be the most popular. ... Duba said, the cost of the operating system component is $245 for HP-UX, $250 for Advanced Workstation on the single-processor system and $350 for Advanced Workstation on the dual-processor system.

  My main interest is in the Workstation product line So what are the strategy HPE heading for with its HP/UX? What I can see here on HPEs forum HP/UX is very much still alive but what kind of customer is HP/UX aimed for today?

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[Steven Schweda]

> I have a question about HP/UX Workstation product line. [...]

   _Is_ there an "HP/UX Workstation product line"?  Not for some years,
so far as I know.  Define "Workstation"?  You can stick a graphics card
into many types of server, and _call_ it a workstation.  Very old joke:

      Q: How many legs does a dog have?

      A: Four.

      Q: If you call a tail a leg, _then_ how many legs does a dog have?

      A: Five.

      Q: No, still four.  _Calling_ a tail a leg doesn't _make_ it a leg.

   It was about the same with VMS (before HPE shed that OS, and VSI
picked it up).  But VSI still isn't promoting VMS for anything they'd
call a "workstation").

[Jesse Dougherty]

HP killed the HP-UX IA64 / Itanium Workstation line a long time ago... They made ZX2000 and ZX6000 and that was it.

HP-UX is still hanging in there though. Many companies still run HP-UX (PA-RISC & Itanium workstations and servers) for critical application, embedded tools in manufacturing, semi-conducting, transportation, and a bunch of others. Its usually the box that has been running in the corner or the oldest box in a data-center that not many people know much about because it was there before they started working... But when it has an issue and brings down a critical system, all hell breaks loose.

As for HPs plan, I can only guess but being a re-sellers of HP-UX hardware for 25 years, it seems that its being phased out. I don't know why they really had a captive user base that was happy with the stable HP-UX OS. The only new HP-UX hardware that is available with HP is the i6 Superdomes and RX2800, anything older would be available with used / refurbished re-sellers.

As for HP-UX customer.... These days its usually companies that want to buy their own hardware back-ups, development box to transition off HP-UX, or some crazy emergency replacement for a critical box that died...

Thats my thoughts in a nut shell

Thanks
Jesse Dougherty
Cypress Technology Inc
Re-Sellers of HP e3000, 9000, & Itanium

[pooderbill]

HP-UX workstations have been gone for many, many years.
The current strategy is for servers only, no workstations.
The rx2800 has been the best selling HP-UX server for many years but HPE has ceased production at the end of 2020.

The only new hardware for HP-UX today is the i6 blade.