--- Chuck Ciesinski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Mark is right,  the business environment is very different and in one
> word, ORACLE.

I am not sure I see your point.  How many people are considering MYSQL,
POSTGRES and SAPDB?

Oracle is a good product but very overpriced.  Maintenance is
outrageous.  Why move to an open OS, and be strangled by the database.
Oracle pricing structure is a joke.

Since HP has given up the PA-Risc chip, why would they spend all their
time creating and maintaining a proprietary OS, when LINUX is free.
This doesn't seem to follow HP's new business model of low priced
commodity products.

I believe it was posted on this list an article where HP was pushing
RedHat to develop an Enterprise version of Redat to run on Superdome.

I too am strugling with the ideas of where to spend my energies.  What
is the life span of HP-UX.  (Maybe we can discuss something other than
Saddam or WMD, quite frankly no one has changed their opinions.)

So, what do people think?  Is there a future for HP-UX?

-Craig


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